On 11.11.2024 00:55:49, Vincent Mailhol wrote: > Because of popular request [1] and to celebrate the fact that I joined > the kernel web of trust this week [2], here is an RFC to introduce the > CAN XL netlink support. yeay \o/ > The logic is simple. The CAN XL basically just reuse the same kind of > parameters as CAN FD: the databittiming and the TDC. So the series is > just a bunch of refactor to either: > > - factorize code. > - rename some variable to differentiate between CAN FD and XL. > - make some function more generic to accept both CAN FD and XL. > > The feature is working™: there is a dummy driver at the end of the > series to show the traffic from the userland to a driver. This said, I > did close to zero testing. Once I had one CAN XL frame reaching the > driver, I call it a day, and decided to send the work. Regardless, it > is Sunday night. If I do not send it now, that would be next week-end. > Probably some mistakes are hidden here and there, but this should be > enough for an RFC level. > > Also, I am not fully happy that can_dbt_changelink() requires 8 > parameters. I will probably revisit this later on. But for the moment, > I think this is acceptable for an RFC. > > Overall, I do not want to rush this series. Linus should send the rc7 > anytime soon, and the merge window will probably start in eight days. > I do not think this series will be finalized by then. I still need to > give a deeper look at ISO 11898-1:2024 [3] to check that everything is > good. However, if I receive positive feedback on this RFC, I would > probably like to have the first patch merged so that I do not have to > rebase that tree wide patch each time someone makes a change. > > I will send a second RFC series for iplink2 just after this one. Stay > tuned! What's the base commit of this series? It doesn't apply to net-next/main. For a series this big, try using 'b4', it also automatically sends the base commit. regards, Marc -- Pengutronix e.K. | Marc Kleine-Budde | Embedded Linux | https://www.pengutronix.de | Vertretung Nürnberg | Phone: +49-5121-206917-129 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 |
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