This came through google groups and as the change is right where I'd been working, I added it here to avoid collision.

The goal of this first installment is to organize the code a bit so it's more readable,
clean up a bit of left over cruft, and manage link configurations (and links in general).

Now works for more than Serial links

Centralize all connecting and disconnecting of links through
LinkManager::[Connect|Disconnect]Link api. Connect/Disconnect no longer
allowed through LinkInterface. This allows creation of new
LinkManager::setConnections[Suspended|Allowed] methods to disallow
connections as needed.

This api doesn’t make any sense given the fact that LinkInterface
signals bytesReceived with the bytes in the signal. Also the reason why
it is never called!

Fix execution context of thread routines - note that this is not quite the architecture the Qt folks intended, but as they admit its the consequence of their architecture.

Converted LinkInterface from a pure-virtual interface into an abstract base class. This centralized the data rate calculation code for all subclasses. Also added the necessary code to provide upstream/downstream data rate calculations for all LinkInterface-derived classes.

Renamed getNominalDataRate to getConnectionSpeed. Also added upstream/downstream data rate functions to all Link classes.

Removed LinkInterface methods which were never being called. Updated various LinkInterface implementation classes to remove the methods. Some methods such as the ones which measure data rates or bits sent/received were implemented in only some of the implementation classes, and in some cases implemented incorrectly. If they were called, the values returned would be incorrect. Although there was some partial implementation for these I removed them as well since in all case they were never being called by any code. In checking Blame, these came across in 2010 and have remained unimplemented since them, so I figure better to clean up than leave crufty, unused, half finished stuff in.

Changed many functions in the abstract *Link classes to be const. This facilitates setting other functions as const. The metadata for specific links are reset when the links are added.

Changed many functions in the abstract *Link classes to be const. This facilitates setting other functions as const. The metadata for specific links are reset when the links are added.

Added not yet working version of logging / log replay, fixed ALL bugs in main window, enabled full persistence in main window and serial link.