Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 May 2005 21:33:13 +0200 (METDST) | From | Esben Nielsen <> | Subject | Re: RT patch acceptance |
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On Mon, 30 May 2005, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> > Esben Nielsen wrote: > > Ofcourse, there is a lot of buts to that. You have to check that the > > driver doesn't take a call path which is nontermnistic in special cases > > and the path between your application and the driver is deterministic. > > A static code checker would be nice... > > Which gets up back where we began: drivers that are non-deterministic > will continue being deterministic regardless of what solution is adopted, > if any, and will be in need of a re-write/major-modification, which > itself will have little or no added value for non-rters ...
But if you do have to maintain your own driver it is a lot easier to start from an existing and fix that one than it is to start all over. I bet the modifcations aren't too big for many drivers anyways. When I get more time I'll try to look into some drivers. Many of them is propably just about removing printk's and the like.
Esben
> > Karim
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