Re: RT patch acceptance

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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
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