Le jeudi 10 décembre 2009 à 16:42 +0100, Wolfgang Grandegger a écrit :
> Sylvain Lamontagne wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am working with a custom MPC5200B based board and the CAN is mostly
> > working on it, using the revision 958 on the berlios svn. I know it's
> > quite old, this is why this email have two part. The kernel is version
> > 2.6.29.2 with some patches for our internal needs.
> > 
> > First: 
> > I have been trying to figure out why sometime I'm getting a kernel Oops
> > when the command "ifconfig canX down" is used. The Oops is pretty random
> > so there is no easy way (that I found) to reproduce it, therefor it is
> > hard to debug. I've attached the Oops to this email. (I have plenty of
> > similar)
> > 
> > My question regarding this first issue is: Is it known that this version
> > (958) of the driver can cause a kernel Oops ?
> > Regarding this email it seems that I'm not alone.
> > https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/socketcan-users/2009-February/000646.html
> 
> OK, I have no quick solution for that problem and as the version is
> already quite old... let's try with up-to-date software.
> 
Yeah no problem, I'll test with the new driver for a while and if I see
this kernel oops again I'll repost here.

> > I though that updating the driver would be a good thing, so I tried and
> > this is why I have a second part to this email.
> > 
> > Second:
> > By reading the various source of information on the internet I have
> > discovered that SocketCAN source code seems now in two different places.
> > The berlios SVN and this git
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
> 
> There is MSCAN-Support in the mainline kernel since 2.6.32. The code at
> BerliOS is (usually) in sync with the official version and it still
> supports older versions of the kernel.
> 
> > So I'm a bit confused about which I should use, but I tried with the
> > berlios svn r1095 but it seems that the way I was compiling before
> > doesn't work anymore ... it seems to compile but the mscan driver is not
> > compiled. I get some .ko but no mscan-mpc52xx.ko mscan.ko or
> > mscan_5xxx.ko anywhere... previously I was getting mscan-mpc52xx.ko
> 
> $ cd trunk/kernel/2.6
> $ make ARCH=powerpc \
>     KERNELDIR=$KSRC CONFIG_CAN_DEBUG_DEVICES=y \
>     CONFIG_CAN_DEV=m \
>     CONFIG_CAN_MSCAN=m CONFIG_CAN_MPC52XX=m CONFIG_CAN_MPC5XXX=m \
> 
> should do the job. For 2.6.29 CONFIG_CAN_MPC5XXX=m should just be fine.

Yep it worked fine, though I think maybe there is something odd in the
different Makefile. If I don't specify the CONFIG_CAN_* options above
I'll not get the driver. Specifying only CONFIG_CAN_MPC5XXX=m instead of
both worked fine for my kernel.
  
> 
> > I probably do something wrong, but to verify that I would need the
> > procedure to compiled the drivers correctly or even better to include
> > them in the kernel as a simple patch.
> > 
> > And also before someone suggest it ... I can't upgrade the kernel to a
> > new version on this unit without having really good reason.
> > 
> > So, what is the way to get a newer version of the SocketCAN driver to
> > work on a linux kernel 2.6.29.2 ?
> 
> See above. Note that the official kernel version now uses the netlink
> interface to configure the device, instead of the deprecated sysfs.
Yep, I used git version of iproute2 to configure it and everything is
working fine. I'll do more testing in the following days, but it seems
pretty well so far.

Thanks a lot!

> 
> Wolfgang.
> 
> > 
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