On 19.07.2011 18:18, Mike Brown wrote:
> On 07/19/2011 10:40 AM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>> On 19.07.2011 17:35, Mike Brown wrote:
>>> On 07/19/2011 09:51 AM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>>>> When the sent CAN frames are not pushed into the rx queue on successful
>>>> transmit IFF_ECHO must not be set in the device flags.
>>> I didn't dig this deep into the flexcan driver but did got deep enough to 
>>> see
>>> this flag being set as well.  If read the SocketCAN documentation correctly,
>>> then if the driver doesn't set this flag then the PF_CAN layer should handle
>>> the loopback???   I'm trying to get a build with the flag cleared in 
>>> flexcan.c
>> Yes - that's a good test!
>>
>> Feedback is appreciated :-)
> Clearing the IFF_ECHO flag in flexcan.c fixes the problem.  I can now run
> cansend and candump on the same CAN interface.
> 
> # candump -a can0,0:0
>   can0    1  [1] 48                        'H'
> 
> # cansend can0 001#48
> #
> 
> Safe to assume that the flexcan driver doesn't support loopback as described
> then?
> 
> http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.39/Documentation/networking/can.txt#L580

Yes. Sigh.

So this can be temporarily fixed by removing the line which sets IFF_ECHO ...
but of course should be fixed by implementing the can_echo_skb stuff.

Thanks for testing!

I enhanced the mail subject to wake up the maintainers ;-)

Best regards,
Oliver


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