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From: Alexis Berlemont <berlemont.hauw@domain.hid>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:43:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] Comedi drivers in Xenomai porting/integration
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Hi,

>> That was the reason why, I was really suprised to find Comedi
>> integrated into the mainline kernel. What strikes me more is that
>> Comedi seems to be left as is. Do you think, it will be cleaned up or
>> reworked ?
>
> Without rework Comedi will not make into mainline (I wouldn't call the
> staging corner "mainline"). And when reading this
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/793476, it is probably the
> best time now to propose interface changes and contribute back
> improvements made for the RTDM rework.

How would you proceed ? Maybe, the first step would be to ask on the
Comedi mailing-list if someone is interested in discussing on the API
rework. Maybe, someone will answer this time. 

Alexis.