Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add Microchip MCP25XXFD CAN driver

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Hi,

On 0611, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 6/10/20 9:44 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This series adds CAN network driver support for Microchip MCP25XXFD CAN
> > Controller with MCP2517FD as the target controller version. This series is
> > mostly inspired (or taken) from the previous iterations posted by Martin Sperl.
> > I've trimmed down the parts which are not necessary for the initial version
> > to ease review. Still the series is relatively huge but I hope to get some
> > reviews (post -rcX ofc!).
> > 
> > Link to the origial series posted by Martin:
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg284462.html
> > 
> > I've not changed the functionality much but done some considerable amount of
> > cleanups and also preserved the authorship of Martin for all the patches he has
> > posted earlier. This series has been tested on 96Boards RB3 platform by myself
> > and Martin has tested the previous version on Rpi3 with external MCP2517FD
> > controller.
> 
> I initially started looking at Martin's driver and it was not using several
> modern CAN driver infrastructures. I then posted some cleanup patches but Martin
> was not working on the driver any more. Then I decided to rewrite the driver,
> that is the one I'm hoping to mainline soon.
> 

So how should we proceed from here? It is okay for me to work on adding some
features and also fixing the issues you've reported so far. But I want to reach
a consensus before moving forward.

If you think that it makes sense to go with your set of patches, then I need an
estimate on when you'll post the first revision.

> Can you give it a try?
> 
> https://github.com/marckleinebudde/linux/commits/v5.6-rpi/mcp25xxfd-20200607-41
> 

Sure thing. Will do.

Thanks,
Mani

> Marc
> 
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