Re: can: flexcan: implement workaround for FIFO overruns (based on code by David Jander)

[Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>]

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On 07/09/2015 11:32 AM, Holger Schurig wrote:
> Thorsten,
> 
> after pondering a bit on this I'd just say give up.
> 
> The FlexCAN driver is in a state of limbo. For many months
> occassionally people submit some path, but nothing really changes,
> only minor things get accepted and applied to the kernel. I see two
> reasons:
> 
> * some people have the picture of a "one big patch series that saves
> the world" view. But this one is complex, and so it never
> materialized. For example my KFIFO patch was not dismissed because of
> technical reasons, but because this big patch will eventually come.
> Marc said "I'll look into it at the end of the week", but that was
> optimistic

Sorry - I'm not full time paid to work on linux-can. But there soon will
be another end-of-the-week to look at the code.

Marc
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