A gentle ping to remind you of this series.
I have no idea why it hasn't deserved any response for quite some
time.
Is there anything I am still missing?
Please let me know.
Thanks and regards,
Dario
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 10:10 PM Dario Binacchi
<dario.binacchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The series adds support for the basic extended CAN controller (bxCAN)
> found in many low- to middle-end STM32 SoCs.
>
> The driver design (one core module and one driver module) was inspired
> by other ST drivers (e. g. drivers/iio/adc/stm32-adc.c,
> drivers/iio/adc/stm32-adc-core.c) where device instances share resources.
> The shared resources functions are implemented in the core module, the
> device driver in a separate module.
>
> The driver has been tested on the stm32f469i-discovery board with a
> kernel version 5.19.0-rc2 in loopback + silent mode:
>
> ip link set can0 type can bitrate 125000 loopback on listen-only on
> ip link set up can0
> candump can0 -L &
> cansend can0 300#AC.AB.AD.AE.75.49.AD.D1
>
> For uboot and kernel compilation, as well as for rootfs creation I used
> buildroot:
>
> make stm32f469_disco_sd_defconfig
> make
>
> but I had to patch can-utils and busybox as can-utils and iproute are
> not compiled for MMU-less microcotrollers. In the case of can-utils,
> replacing the calls to fork() with vfork(), I was able to compile the
> package with working candump and cansend applications, while in the
> case of iproute, I ran into more than one problem and finally I decided
> to extend busybox's ip link command for CAN-type devices. I'm still
> wondering if it was really necessary, but this way I was able to test
> the driver.
>
> Changes in v7:
> - Add Vincent Mailhol's Reviewed-by tag.
> - Remove all unused macros for reading/writing the controller registers.
> - Add CAN_ERR_CNT flag to notify availability of error counter.
> - Move the "break" before the newline in the switch/case statements.
> - Print the mnemotechnic instead of the error value in each netdev_err().
> - Remove the debug print for timings parameter.
> - Do not copy the data if CAN_RTR_FLAG is set in bxcan_start_xmit().
> - Populate ndev->ethtool_ops with the default timestamp info.
>
> Changes in v6:
> - move can1 node before gcan to keep ordering by address.
>
> Changes in v5:
> - Add Rob Herring's Acked-by tag.
> - Add Rob Herring's Reviewed-by tag.
> - Put static in front of bxcan_enable_filters() definition.
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Remove "st,stm32f4-bxcan-core" compatible. In this way the can nodes
> (compatible "st,stm32f4-bxcan") are no longer children of a parent
> node with compatible "st,stm32f4-bxcan-core".
> - Add the "st,gcan" property (global can memory) to can nodes which
> references a "syscon" node containing the shared clock and memory
> addresses.
> - Replace the node can@40006400 (compatible "st,stm32f4-bxcan-core")
> with the gcan@40006600 node ("sysnode" compatible). The gcan node
> contains clocks and memory addresses shared by the two can nodes
> of which it's no longer the parent.
> - Add to can nodes the "st,gcan" property (global can memory) which
> references the gcan@40006600 node ("sysnode compatibble).
> - Add "dt-bindings: arm: stm32: add compatible for syscon gcan node" patch.
> - Drop the core driver. Thus bxcan-drv.c has been renamed to bxcan.c and
> moved to the drivers/net/can folder. The drivers/net/can/bxcan directory
> has therefore been removed.
> - Use the regmap_*() functions to access the shared memory registers.
> - Use spinlock to protect bxcan_rmw().
> - Use 1 space, instead of tabs, in the macros definition.
> - Drop clock ref-counting.
> - Drop unused code.
> - Drop the _SHIFT macros and use FIELD_GET()/FIELD_PREP() directly.
> - Add BXCAN_ prefix to lec error codes.
> - Add the macro BXCAN_RX_MB_NUM.
> - Enable time triggered mode and use can_rx_offload().
> - Use readx_poll_timeout() in function with timeouts.
> - Loop from tail to head in bxcan_tx_isr().
> - Check bits of tsr register instead of pkts variable in bxcan_tx_isr().
> - Don't return from bxcan_handle_state_change() if skb/cf are NULL.
> - Enable/disable the generation of the bus error interrupt depending
> on can.ctrlmode & CAN_CTRLMODE_BERR_REPORTING.
> - Don't return from bxcan_handle_bus_err() if skb is NULL.
> - Drop statistics updating from bxcan_handle_bus_err().
> - Add an empty line in front of 'return IRQ_HANDLED;'
> - Rename bxcan_start() to bxcan_chip_start().
> - Rename bxcan_stop() to bxcan_chip_stop().
> - Disable all IRQs in bxcan_chip_stop().
> - Rename bxcan_close() to bxcan_ndo_stop().
> - Use writel instead of bxcan_rmw() to update the dlc register.
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Remove 'Dario Binacchi <dariobin@xxxxxxxxx>' SOB.
> - Add description to the parent of the two child nodes.
> - Move "patterProperties:" after "properties: in top level before "required".
> - Add "clocks" to the "required:" list of the child nodes.
> - Remove 'Dario Binacchi <dariobin@xxxxxxxxx>' SOB.
> - Add "clocks" to can@0 node.
> - Remove 'Dario Binacchi <dariobin@xxxxxxxxx>' SOB.
> - Remove a blank line.
> - Remove 'Dario Binacchi <dariobin@xxxxxxxxx>' SOB.
> - Fix the documentation file path in the MAINTAINERS entry.
> - Do not increment the "stats->rx_bytes" if the frame is remote.
> - Remove pr_debug() call from bxcan_rmw().
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Change the file name into 'st,stm32-bxcan-core.yaml'.
> - Rename compatibles:
> - st,stm32-bxcan-core -> st,stm32f4-bxcan-core
> - st,stm32-bxcan -> st,stm32f4-bxcan
> - Rename master property to st,can-master.
> - Remove the status property from the example.
> - Put the node child properties as required.
> - Remove a blank line.
> - Fix sparse errors.
> - Create a MAINTAINERS entry.
> - Remove the print of the registers address.
> - Remove the volatile keyword from bxcan_rmw().
> - Use tx ring algorithm to manage tx mailboxes.
> - Use can_{get|put}_echo_skb().
> - Update DT properties.
>
> Dario Binacchi (5):
> dt-bindings: arm: stm32: add compatible for syscon gcan node
> dt-bindings: net: can: add STM32 bxcan DT bindings
> ARM: dts: stm32: add CAN support on stm32f429
> ARM: dts: stm32: add pin map for CAN controller on stm32f4
> can: bxcan: add support for ST bxCAN controller
>
> .../bindings/arm/stm32/st,stm32-syscon.yaml | 2 +
> .../bindings/net/can/st,stm32-bxcan.yaml | 83 ++
> MAINTAINERS | 7 +
> arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32f4-pinctrl.dtsi | 30 +
> arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32f429.dtsi | 29 +
> drivers/net/can/Kconfig | 12 +
> drivers/net/can/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/net/can/bxcan.c | 1088 +++++++++++++++++
> 8 files changed, 1252 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/st,stm32-bxcan.yaml
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/can/bxcan.c
>
> --
> 2.32.0
>
--
Dario Binacchi
Senior Embedded Linux Developer
dario.binacchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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