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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Florian Feldbauer <florian@ep1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
	linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Writing socketCAN module for my own hardware
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:24:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E9CF27.90400@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E9C774.3040401@ep1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

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On 08/12/2014 09:51 AM, Florian Feldbauer wrote:
> I have developed a CAN interface for the Raspberry Pi computer using the
> SJA1000 directly connected to the GPIOs of the CPU.

This sounds very slow :)

> So far this interface is used as chardev and works fine.
> But I'm also developing a user-space program using this CAN interface.
> This program should also be compatible with other CAN interfaces like
> the ones from PEAK or Kvazer. So I thought using socketCAN would be a
> good idea.

Yes.

> Is there any documentation on how to write a socketCAN compatible kernel
> module for my own hardware?
> I tried writing something similar to the sja1000_isa driver...

IMHO sja1000_platform.c is a better blueprint, as it uses the device
tree to describe the hardware and does not rely on module parameters.

> So far my modified kernel compiles and I can change bitrate and bring
> the interface up.
> But as soon as I try to send a CAN frame I get the error:
> Error 105: No buffer space available

You are sending CAN frames faster than the driver is able to send them,
you have to wait a bit, before sending new CAN frames.

Marc

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-12  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-12  7:51 Writing socketCAN module for my own hardware Florian Feldbauer
2014-08-12  8:24 ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2014-08-12  8:57   ` Florian Feldbauer
2014-08-12 10:01     ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-01  7:26       ` Florian Feldbauer
2014-10-01  7:49         ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-01 12:32           ` Florian Feldbauer
2014-10-01 12:41             ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-01 12:56               ` Florian Feldbauer
2014-10-01 13:11                 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-09 15:06               ` Florian Feldbauer
2014-10-09 16:13                 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-10  7:43                   ` Florian Feldbauer
2014-10-10  8:06                     ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-10  8:09                       ` Florian Feldbauer

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