Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261717AbVE3Thv (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 15:37:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261716AbVE3Thm (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 15:37:42 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:15118 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261726AbVE3TgI (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 15:36:08 -0400 Message-ID: <429B6D89.3090705@opersys.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 15:46:17 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Esben Nielsen CC: Nick Piggin , kus Kusche Klaus , James Bruce , "Bill Huey (hui)" , Andi Kleen , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Ingo Molnar , dwalker@mvista.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1057 Lines: 23 Esben Nielsen wrote: > 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. Right, and that's exactly what you've got with RT-net (at least the last time I used it 4 years ago.) You took the standard Ethernet driver from Linux and modified a few calls, and bingo, you had an rt-net driver based on the standard Linux driver ... all of which in RTAI ... Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/