Hi Michael, On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 02:16:36AM +0000, Michael Frampton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in porting the J1939 code and MCP2517 driver to an > older kernel. I'm planning on using the Qualcomm 4.14 kernel. > > Is it possible that working versions of this code has already been > backported to an earlier kernel release, which I could then merge into > 4.14? As far as I know - no. > I saw that Romain Forlot has asked a similar question here a > couple of months ago > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-can/msg02539.html but the thread > was abandoned. It needs more time then we actually expected. It will be great if you can spend time on it. If you will be able to get a working patch set, we can publish it here as a topic branch. In this case you will get more testers and fixes. > Oleksij Rempel mentioned that there is potentially and > issue with Rx/Tx frame ordering, is this still the case? Yes. Needed CAN patches should be backported as well. > Thanks very much. --Mike You are welcome! Regards, Oleksij -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |
