From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45E35261.8000505@domain.hid> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:34:25 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] newby question, can/socket stuff References: <45E33BA0.6080903@domain.hid> <45E34014.6080105@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig351338BACF74CD1C8CCE4365" Sender: jan.kiszka@domain.hid List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: roland Tollenaar Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig351338BACF74CD1C8CCE4365 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable roland Tollenaar wrote: >> Add 1 to 1: The CAN profile describes what IOCTLs are available for CA= N >> sockets. rt_dev_ioctl() (or ioctl() with the POSIX skin) is the way to= >> pass these IOCTLs down to the CAN stack. >=20 > Actually this sheds quite a bit of light on matters. If you would be > so kind as to give a brief explanation of what a "stack" is exactly. I > have been confronted with the term quite a lot now but its not > becoming clearer. I used to think it was a buffer of some kind. Kind > of like the ones that one "pushes" and "pops" on but I can't see a > connection between that concept and what you say above. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_stack? :-> Jan --------------enig351338BACF74CD1C8CCE4365 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF41JhniDOoMHTA+kRAkCEAJ9XN/5+0OyZmkaKna2mzu4mIIWX9wCfYTYC CQAq1f+cCsyiidwSyTJlr/w= =Ya9K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig351338BACF74CD1C8CCE4365--