[openbeosnetteam] Re: Realtek 8139 Driver

> I've sent mine to Niels, so he can look how it (should?) works.
> For instance, it don't bufferized packets on driver-side: each packet
> received raise the read_hook semaphore,
> A good design, the shorter the better.

I had this in my initial design, however, because of the loss of packets
I thought it might not work properly so I implemented this system. As
I've still got the older revision in my private CVS, I think I might go
back to that one though.

> I agree, porting this code to BeOS kernel driver API would be
easier...

That would be the easiest, but that wouldn't teach me how to write a
driver. This is all a huge learning project. I mean, in physics you
could immediately start with quantum physics, but I bet you won't
understand that if you haven't done anything with Newton's laws. 

> > For now yes, but please use CVS directly once you got an account -
> > that's the purpose of it, even if you don't like it now. It might
> > never
> > again be so easy to get write access to our repository, don't play
> > with
> > it ;-)
> 
> LOL

Wow, a once in a lifetime opportunity... ;-) Thanks

Niels

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