Re: Is there any way of getting the CAN interfaces list, from any C program?

[Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>]

On 04/25/2013 09:24 AM, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 08:41:16AM +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> Hi Kurt,
>>
>> On 04/24/2013 04:49 PM, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
>>> Hi Stephane,
>>>
>>> I have written this some time ago, not using it actually.
>>> I tried a modular approach, don't know if its usefull.
>>>
>>> PS: I used attachments.
>>
>> ~/enumif$ ./enumif
>> 1: lo	{loopback} <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> UNKNOWN
>> 2: eth0	{ether} <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> DOWN
>> 3: eth1	{ether} <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> UNKNOWN
>> 4: eth3	{ether} <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> DOWN
>> 5: can0	{can} <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> UNKNOWN
>> 6: can1	{can} <NOARP,ECHO> DOWN
>> 7: can2	{can} <NOARP,ECHO> DOWN
>> 8: can3	{can} <NOARP,ECHO> DOWN
>> 9: pan0	{ether} <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> DOWN
>>
>> Cool! We know that "ip link" does list all network interfaces but the
>> code doing the job is not really strength-forward. I think this would be
>> a nice enhancement of the can-utils.
> 
> would it make sense to maintain the split into enumif-test.c and enumif.c,
> so for example Stephane could just link to libenumif.a?

Well, a better place might be libsocketcan then. In general it would be
nice to host libsocketcan (maybe as liblinuxcan) at
https://gitorious.org/linux-can as well.

Wolfgang.