Re: RT patch acceptance

[Karim Yaghmour]

Esben Nielsen wrote:
> Ofcourse, there is a lot of buts to that. You have to check that the
> driver doesn't take a call path which is nontermnistic in special cases
> and the path between your application and the driver is deterministic.
> A static code checker would be nice...

Which gets up back where we began: drivers that are non-deterministic
will continue being deterministic regardless of what solution is adopted,
if any, and will be in need of a re-write/major-modification, which
itself will have little or no added value for non-rters ...

Karim
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