Re: Re: can-j1939 API

[Kurt Van Dijck <dev.kurt@vandijck-laurijssen.be>]

--- Original message ---
> Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 01:01:10 -0500
> From: Yang Wang <wang701@purdue.edu>
> To: dev.kurt@vandijck-laurijssen.be
> Cc: Alex Layton <alex@layton.in>, linux-can <linux-can@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: Re: can-j1939 API
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Kurt Van Dijck
> <dev.kurt@vandijck-laurijssen.be> wrote:
> >
> > The fixes I need to do don't affect the API.
> > The upcoming changes to can-j1939 do not yet affect the socket API,
> > they rather affect how iproute2 is needed (I plan to drop the need for it).
> >
> > I'm not so familiar with JNI etc. I assume that the whole iproute2 thing
> > would stay out of it alltogether?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Kurt
> 
> Yes. I am inclined to use the stock iproute2 if possible.
> 
> I did compile your newest branch (j1939-v3.15x) on kernel source tree.
> After booting into the kernel, it seems like the j1939 switch will not
> work on a CAN interface unless your version of iproute2 is installed.

yes, that's true.

> 
> I will begin writing the JNI wrapper for j1939 but how soon do you
> plan on dropping the need on iproute2?

Well, I'm 25% now. I plan to finish, let's say, a couple of weeks.

> 
> Regards,
> Yang
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