Alexis Berlemont wrote: > 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. If it is more informative than the mail from 06-04-09 and the presentation.txt there is definitely a chance :-), I read through it then, found the goals reasonably sound, and nothing to test, so I waited for some working code to show up (having too much at my hands already), that time might have come now.
Features I would like to see in a Comedi/RTDM framework are: 1. Drivers should work in Linux, Xenomai (and possibly RTAI and/or RT-Linux) 2. It should be possible to write drivers that live in user-space (serial2002 driver is a big HACK). 3. Stackable drivers (e.g. put a force sensor driver on top of a analog input card). 4. A comedilib compatibilty library would be nice (but not necessary) If all these pieces are in place, I'm more than happy to test/migrate the drivers I use in my labs (JR3, NI M6221, DaqBoard 2000, ACPI 3106, serial) Best regards Anders Blomdell -- Anders Blomdell Email: anders.blomd...@control.lth.se Department of Automatic Control Lund University Phone: +46 46 222 4625 P.O. Box 118 Fax: +46 46 138118 SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden _______________________________________________ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
