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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC 0/1] Class driver for raw Ethernet packets
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On 2011-09-27 18:26, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> I was simply hoping to collect some new ideas how to address the driver
> maintenance issue in a better way but without dropping key features
> needed for RT networking. Something like "let's add generic RT channels
> to Linux upstream drivers and then only patch them fit RTDM". Not sure
> if that works, but it would come with a vision how to keep things more
> maintainable.

+this could be useful for other scenarios - on PREEMPT-RT.

Jan

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