From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Sebastian Haas <dev@sebastianhaas.info>
Cc: "Heinz-Jürgen Oertel" <hj.oertel@t-online.de>, linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: adding can4linux to drivers/char
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 19:09:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <523DD2C3.7000505@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADGMhsU2fD3VnSkRqCJ9AT3SCmKRaX_965i6Kr-gdaFFwDejvw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/21/2013 06:37 PM, Sebastian Haas wrote:
> As Oliver already pointed out there are a bunch of applications outside
> which may require a can4linux-like chardev API.
>
> But I also agree that merging an additional CAN framework makes not
> much sense. I prefer to port can4linux drivers to SocketCAN for not
> yet supported devices. But we may also think about an emulation of
> chardev based APIs like can4linux to support legacy applications.
The emulation could probably be done in userspace. I'll ask our
userspace graphics guys how they emulate legacy /dev/fbX on top of drm.
Marc
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-21 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 23:03 adding can4linux to drivers/char Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
2013-09-21 9:17 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2013-09-21 19:57 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-21 13:38 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-21 16:37 ` Sebastian Haas
2013-09-21 17:09 ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2013-09-21 18:17 ` Oliver Hartkopp
[not found] ` <CADGMhsXaJOpbdCgEAoOguZWX2rS_P0a-H5UDZwUWiHD4Nj=upw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-09-22 10:40 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-22 11:01 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2013-09-23 13:46 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-21 19:55 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-29 16:28 ` Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
2013-09-29 17:44 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-29 17:45 ` Sebastian Haas
2013-09-29 18:44 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-29 19:23 ` Max S.
2013-09-29 19:17 ` Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
2013-09-29 19:43 ` autobaud detection (was: Re: adding can4linux to drivers/char) Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-30 7:30 ` adding can4linux to drivers/char Sebastian Haas
2013-09-30 10:20 ` Kurt Van Dijck
2013-09-29 19:23 ` Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
2013-09-30 9:35 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2013-10-01 20:20 ` AW: " May, Stefan
2013-10-02 7:49 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2013-10-02 8:43 ` Linux CAN CUSE hacks, SocketCAN and RT Was: " Pavel Pisa
2013-10-02 9:47 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-29 19:41 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-30 7:40 ` Sebastian Haas
2013-09-30 8:21 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
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