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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-can@vger.kernel.org,
	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>,
	michael@amarulasolutions.com,
	Amarula patchwork <linux-amarula@amarulasolutions.com>,
	Jeroen Hofstee <jhofstee@victronenergy.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 8/9] can: slcan: add support to set bit time register (btr)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:30:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220727113054.ffcckzlcipcxer2c@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220726210217.3368497-9-dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>

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On 26.07.2022 23:02:16, Dario Binacchi wrote:
> It allows to set the bit time register with tunable values.
> The setting can only be changed if the interface is down:
> 
> ip link set dev can0 down
> ethtool --set-tunable can0 can-btr 0x31c
> ip link set dev can0 up

As far as I understand, setting the btr is an alternative way to set the
bitrate, right? I don't like the idea of poking arbitrary values into a
hardware from user space.

Do you have a use case for this?

Marc

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-27 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-26 21:02 [RFC PATCH v3 0/9] can: slcan: extend supported features (step 2) Dario Binacchi
2022-07-26 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/9] can: slcan: use KBUILD_MODNAME and define pr_fmt to replace hardcoded names Dario Binacchi
2022-07-26 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/9] can: slcan: remove useless header inclusions Dario Binacchi
2022-07-26 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/9] can: slcan: remove legacy infrastructure Dario Binacchi
2022-07-27 17:09   ` Max Staudt
2022-07-26 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/9] can: slcan: change every `slc' occurrence in `slcan' Dario Binacchi
2022-07-26 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH v3 5/9] can: slcan: use the generic can_change_mtu() Dario Binacchi
2022-07-26 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH v3 6/9] can: slcan: add support for listen-only mode Dario Binacchi
2022-07-26 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH v3 7/9] ethtool: add support to get/set CAN bit time register Dario Binacchi
2022-07-26 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH v3 8/9] can: slcan: add support to set bit time register (btr) Dario Binacchi
2022-07-27 11:30   ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2022-07-27 15:55     ` Dario Binacchi
2022-07-27 17:21       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2022-07-27 17:28         ` Dario Binacchi
2022-07-27 17:33           ` Max Staudt
2022-07-27 18:23             ` Dario Binacchi
2022-07-27 17:28     ` Max Staudt
2022-07-27 18:24       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2022-07-27 20:12         ` Oliver Hartkopp
2022-07-28  6:56           ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2022-07-28  7:36         ` Dario Binacchi
2022-07-28  9:02           ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2022-07-28 10:23             ` Dario Binacchi
2022-07-28 10:50               ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2022-07-28 10:57                 ` Max Staudt
2022-07-29  6:52                   ` Dario Binacchi
2022-07-29  7:33                     ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2022-07-31 15:54                       ` Dario Binacchi
2022-07-31 18:58                         ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2022-07-26 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH v3 9/9] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for the slcan driver Dario Binacchi
2022-07-27 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/9] can: slcan: extend supported features (step 2) Marc Kleine-Budde

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