Re: [PATCH] socketcan: add a driver for FlexCAN controllers.

On 06/18/2010 12:16 PM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:

Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:

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Hi Hans-Jürgen,

On 06/17/2010 12:52 PM, Hans J. Koch wrote:

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This adds a driver for FlexCAN based CAN controllers,
e.g. found in Freescale i.MX35 SoCs.

The original version of this driver was posted by Sascha Hauer in July 2009:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2009/7/29/6251621

I took this version, added NAPI support, and fixed some problems found
during testing. Well, here is the result. Please review.

I briefly browsed the patch and various bits and pieces are missing or
not correctly implemented. Marc already pointed out a few of them:

- I do not find can_put/get_echo_skb functions in the code. How is
  IFF_ECHO supposed to work?

the driver uses hardware loopback

OK, then

  dev = alloc_candev(sizeof(struct flexcan_priv), 0);

should be used (and TX_ECHO_SKB_MAX removed) in Hans-Jürgens driver.

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- Support for CAN_CTRLMODE_BERR_REPORTING and do_get_berr_counter()
  seems to be missing.

- Make use of alloc_can_skb() and alloc_can_err_skb().

the last two points are already addressed in my version of the driver.

I do not see support for CAN_CTRLMODE_BERR_REPORTING in your driver
(which has nothing to do with do_get_berr_counter).

Wolfgang.