Re: pch_can: Data transmission stops after dropped packet

[Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>]

On 11/15/2012 05:23 PM, Michael Pellegrini wrote:
> Wolfgang Grandegger <wg <at> grandegger.com> writes:
> 
>>>
>>> 3. It turned out that the pch_can controller is created upon the C_CAN
>>> CAN controller IP-core. Therefore Wolfgang posted an idea to replace the
>>> pch_can driver with a PCI-attached C_CAN driver:
>>>
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.can/815
>>>
>>> I don't know the current state of the tests/replacement.
>>
>> As you can see from this thread, the replacement patch did not yet
>> succesfully run on such a platform. But I definitively would like to get
>> rid of the obsolete pch_can driver. Testers are welcome! Michael, would
>> you be able/willing to test a patch, even with a recent kernel version?
> 
> I would be willing to test a patch, however any fix would need to be back-ported
> to the 3.2.0 kernel to be useful to me.  For the sake of testing though, I would
> be willing to update to a newer kernel.

I need to check first if this driver can be supported with little effort.

> Also, I should warn you that I am not a Linux expert.  Thus, operations like
> updating/recompiling the kernel are new to me and I'll need some help working
> through the process.

Of course! You are welcome. What Linux distribution do you use?

Wolfgang.