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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] General questions
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Sebastian Smolorz wrote:
> You have to distinguish two cases:
> 1. The CAN hardware is immediately ready to accept the message that an 
> application wants to send. In this case the registers of the hardware 
> are filled appropriately and the hardware is instructed to send the CAN 
> message. Without waiting for completion of writing the message to the 
> CAN bus the rt_dev_send function returns.
> 
> 2. If the CAN hardware is in the process of sending an message and 
> another rt_dev_send call is executed for the same CAN bus rt_dev_send 
> blocks as long as the hardware reports that is is ready to accept a new 
> message.
To be correct, replace "as long as" with "until".

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Sebastian