Hello Dan, Am 31.10.2018 um 21:15 schrieb Dan Murphy: > Wolfgang > > Thanks for the review > > On 10/27/2018 09:19 AM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: >> Hello Dan, >> >> for the RFC, could you please just do the necessary changes to the >> existing code. We can discuss about better names, etc. later. For >> the review if the common code I quickly did: >> >> mv m_can.c m_can_platform.c >> mv m_can_core.c m_can.c >> >> The file names are similar to what we have for the C_CAN driver. >> >> s/classdev/priv/ >> variable name s/m_can_dev/priv/ >> >> Then your patch 1/3 looks as shown below. I'm going to comment on that >> one. The comments start with "***".... >> > > So you would like me to align the names with the c_can driver? That would be the obvious choice. > <snip> >> >> *** I didn't review the rest of the patch for now. >> > > snipped the code to reply to the comment. > >> Looking to the generic code, you didn't really change the way >> the driver is accessing the registers. Also the interrupt handling >> and rx polling is as it was before. Does that work properly using >> the SPI interface of the TCAN4x5x? > > I don't want to change any of that yet. Maybe my cover letter was not clear > or did not go through. > > But the intention was just to break out the functionality to create a MCAN framework > that can be used by devices that contain the Bosch MCAN core and provider their own protocal to access > the registers in the device. > > I don't want to do any functional changes at this time on the IP code itself until we have a framework. > There should be no regression in the io mapped code. > > I did comment on the interrupt handling and asked if a threaded work queue would affect CAN timing. > For the original TCAN driver this was the way it was implemented. Do threaded interrupts with RX polling make sense? I think we need a common interface allowing to select hard-irqs+napi or threaded-irqs. Wolfgang.