Re: "Blessed" Version

[Stuart Statman <sstatman@sunverge.com>]

On 10/10/12 3:58 AM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> We have moved to http://gitorious.org/linux-can. CAN utilities and 
> kernel modules have been separated. You find them under "can-utils" 
> and "can-modules". If you can, you should use a recent kernel version 
> to avoid the "can-modules". I'm afraid, they are not really well 
> maintained. What kernel version do you plan to use? What CAN hardware 
> do you want to support? 
Strangely enough, just yesterday we made a decision to migrate CAN 
hardware that reduced the urgency of my question.

However, it does bring up another question.

I've been using slcand and "ip link set xxx up" for a piece of hardware 
that uses the slcan protocol. I'm pretty happy with how it's working, 
but I'd be happier if it was compatible with the can_if script that's in 
the utilities. I could write my own version of can_if that just does the 
right things for slcan, but it does open up a few questions :

1. What is slcan anyway, and why is it not handled like the other drivers?
2. Is there a can_if style script that already handles slcan?
-- 
Stu Statman
VP of Engineering
Sunverge, Inc
http://www.sunverge.com