On 4/9/19 1:38 PM, Kurt Van Dijck wrote: > On di, 09 apr 2019 09:57:49 +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: >> On 4/9/19 9:56 AM, Oleksij Rempel wrote: >>> we are currently updating j1939 documentation and found following >>> sentence: >> >>> "When an empty address is assigned (ie. SA=0xff && name=0), a default >>> is taken for the device that is bound to." >> >> Where and how was the default address of a device configured? > > I had in mind to not necessarily provide an address to each individual > program, so to simplify things. > Originally, using iproute2, this was trivial. > > I also believe it has become a strange artefact in the current API. > That's yet some policy that could be stripped from the kernel. The code is not in the kernel any more. We stumbled over it while reviewing the documentation. Thanks, Marc -- Pengutronix e.K. | Marc Kleine-Budde | Industrial Linux Solutions | Phone: +49-231-2826-924 | Vertretung West/Dortmund | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | http://www.pengutronix.de |
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