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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