Wolfgang Grandegger <[email protected]> schrieb am 01.08.2011 16:23:42:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On 08/01/2011 04:08 PM, Thomas Wiedemann wrote:
> > Wolfgang Grandegger <[email protected]> schrieb am 01.08.2011 
15:58:54:
> >> On 08/01/2011 03:54 PM, Thomas Wiedemann wrote:
> >>> Wolfgang Grandegger <[email protected]> schrieb am 01.08.2011 
> > 15:32:14:
> >>>> Hi Marc,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 08/01/2011 02:55 PM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> >>>>> On 08/01/2011 02:17 PM, Thomas Wiedemann wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> i've attached a patch for the Peak CAN PCI driver, which enables 
> >>> support 
> >>>>>> for the 3rd and 4th channel available on some cards. It works* 
for 
> >>> me.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks for the patch. Please don't attach patches, rather post 
them
> >>>>> inline. Please follow the cannonical patch format as documented 
> > here:
> >>>>> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.0/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> >>>>>
> >>>>> See further remarks inline.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I just noticed that this patch is against the berlios tree. I 
don't 
> >>> know
> >>>>> if there is a mainline driver that supports the peak pci cards.
> >>>>
> >>>> No, there is't. But maybe Thomas is interested to push it mainline,
> >>>> after some more fixes. It should be implemented like the other PCI
> >>>> drivers, e.g. ems_pci or even the plx_pci driver might be OK. I 
need 
> > to
> >>>> check. I could then provide a patch which Thomas may test on his
> >>>> hardware. I have a two-channel PCAN-PCI card available.
> >>>
> >>> It makes no big difference for me whether it is in mainline or not, 
> > the 
> >>> socket-can tree from berlios is fine. I would rather not have to 
> > bother 
> >>> with your coding style ;)
> >>
> >> Well, it's also not *my* coding style ;-).
> >>
> >>> But if you'd provide a patch, i would surely test it.
> >>
> >> That would be great. I will have time middle of August to work on 
this
> >> driver.
> > 
> > Fine.
> > When you rewrite the whole driver, I guess it does not make sense for 
me 
> > to rewrite the patch with Marc's hints then, right? (beside of getting 

> > some practice on kernel coding style for the next patch ;)
> 
> Unfortunately, the Socket-CAN-Repository at BerliOS is not really in
> good shape, e.g. up-to-date and I'm not sure, if I will finally backport
> it. Therefore, please fix the remaining issues and we will apply it
> without further nitpicking... for the time being.

I'm still a bit confused about the two trees. What are the differences 
between BerliOS and mainline? Is the BerliOS-tree deprecated?


> What kernel version are you using? Any chance to switch to 3.x?

I'm using the Linux kernel version 2.6.31.12, without plans to upgrade it 
soon. However, i could try to set up linux on a USB device or something, 
and then try to compile linux kernel 3.0 and check the driver.
 


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