[En-Nut-Discussion] Should drivers yield explicit?

[Ole Reinhardt]

Hi Uwe,

> in my CANBUS driver for the STM32, the normal case is that the message gets
> loaded to the fifo and the function return immediate. In that case, there is
> no scheduling point and the calling thread keeps control. 
> Should a NutSleep(O) or NutThreadYield() get inserted in that case?

I don't see any reason why? But you should implement the case where the
FIFO is full and your calling thread has to wait until there is a free
buffer available again.

Anyway I would vote to mark functions with possible scheduling point in
the documentation but don't have a good idea yet how this could be done
in an intelligent way...

Best regards,

Ole


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