Re: [rtl] Changing maximum number of FIFOs

[Stuart Hughes <sehughes@zentropix.com>]

Ivan Martinez wrote:
> 
>         Hello,
>         "Using Shared Memory in Real-Time Linux" tells me that the maximum
> number of FIFOs is declared in "rt_fifo_new.c", but I can't find that
> file. Is it out of date?. I'm using RTLinux 2.2.
>         Thank you.

AFAIK the maximum number is 63, but you need to make sure that you have
actually made the device files, do an ls of /dev/rtf63 to make sure you
have got them.  If not you can make them using the following:

perl -e 'foreach $i (0..63) { `mknod /dev/rtf$i c 150 $i` }'

Regards, Stuart