Re: rtl_register_dev and RTLinux Free documentation

Der Herr Hofrat <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:45:31 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.real-time.rtlinux.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Cort Dougan has done a pretty nifty thing here.
> 
>  http://www.fsmlabs.com/articles/camera/rtlcam.html#more
> 
> What's interesting to me is the <rtl_posixio.h> and registering a rtl
> device using the POSIX standard open(), close(), ioctl().  I've put
> together most of the code he published on the site there with what I
> consider to be the proper headers and so on, and it all compiles
> nicely.
> 
> rtl_register_dev, the function he uses to register all the functions
> with a device name, in this case "/dev/lpt0" does not seem to exsist
> in RTLinux Free.  At least this is what I can absorb from a google
> translation of some Japanese website:
> 

it always was rtl_register_chrdev in RTLinux/GPL - not sure why this was 
changed in RTLinux/Pro - but maby we can get the APIs together again ?

> 
> it also seems that rtl_register_rtldev, my only alternative, is on its way out?
>
no intentions of dropping that in RTLinux/GPL. 

 
hofrat
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