one of my clients that reports sporadic errors. After enabling BERR reporting, I was surprised that the command: ip -details -statistics link show can0 did not display the occurrence of different types of errors, but only the generic ones for reception and transmission. In trying to export this information, I felt that the code related to managing statistics and handling CAN errors (CRC, STUF, BIT, ACK, and FORM) was quite duplicated in the implementation of various drivers, and there wasn't a generic function like in the case of state changes (i. e. can_change_state). This led to the idea of adding can_update_bus_error_stats() and the helpers for setting up the CAN error frame. Regarding patch 5/6 ("can: netlink: extend stats to the error types (ack, CRC, form, ..."), I ran ./scripts/check-uapi.sh which found "error - 1/934 UAPI headers compatible with x86 appear _not_ to be backwards compatible." I included it in the series because I am currently interested in understanding whether the idea behind each of the submitted patches makes sense, and I can adjust them later if the response is positive, following your suggestions. Dario Binacchi (6): can: dev: add generic function can_update_bus_error_stats() can: flexcan: use can_update_bus_error_stats() can: dev: add helper macros to setup an error frame can: flexcan: use helper macros to setup the error frame can: netlink: extend stats to the error types (ack, CRC, form, ...) can: dev: update the error types stats (ack, CRC, form, ...) drivers/net/can/dev/dev.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/can/flexcan/flexcan-core.c | 29 +++++------------ include/linux/can/dev.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/can/netlink.h | 6 ++++ 4 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0