Feature Request - status of Merged Mining connections

[jedimstr]

Right now the only feedback we get is a single line in the running stdio display that shows "Got new merged mining work!". This doesn't tell us anything other than maybe at least one of the merged mining connections is working. So if we have Namecoin, Devcoin, IXCoin and IOCoin, how do we know one or more of those aren't working correctly other than hitting a block and seeing reward in the wallet? This can take a long time and won't help us diagnose any issues with connecting to any of the alt chains.

It would be great to have in the running log display, API, or web display some continuous data on whether any/all the merged mining connections are working and identify each connection, i.e. Namecoin, Devcoin, IXCoin, etc.

[boinggg]

Yes I've wanted this for a long time

[donSchoe]

This is getting interesting, LTC + DOGE merged mining?
https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=18470.0

Will this be possible with P2Pool if they really do it?

[roy7]

Don't know any reason it wouldn't work like any other merge mined coin. Basically just comes down to needing the getauxblock API call I think?

[yhaenggi]

@roy7 @donSchoe yes it would work as p2pool needs getworkaux and getauxblock calls, which would be introduced.
this also means you can MM (merge-mine) DOGE with any scrypt coin too.