From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Grandegger Subject: Re: pch_can: Data transmission stops after dropped packet Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:19:33 +0100 Message-ID: <50A55C65.2020003@grandegger.com> References: <50A4972A.9070707@hartkopp.net> <50A4EA87.9020206@grandegger.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ngcobalt02.manitu.net ([217.11.48.102]:50191 "EHLO ngcobalt02.manitu.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710Ab2KOVTf (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:19:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-can-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Michael Pellegrini Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org On 11/15/2012 05:23 PM, Michael Pellegrini wrote: > Wolfgang Grandegger grandegger.com> writes: > >>> >>> 3. It turned out that the pch_can controller is created upon the C_CAN >>> CAN controller IP-core. Therefore Wolfgang posted an idea to replace the >>> pch_can driver with a PCI-attached C_CAN driver: >>> >>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.can/815 >>> >>> I don't know the current state of the tests/replacement. >> >> As you can see from this thread, the replacement patch did not yet >> succesfully run on such a platform. But I definitively would like to get >> rid of the obsolete pch_can driver. Testers are welcome! Michael, would >> you be able/willing to test a patch, even with a recent kernel version? > > I would be willing to test a patch, however any fix would need to be back-ported > to the 3.2.0 kernel to be useful to me. For the sake of testing though, I would > be willing to update to a newer kernel. I need to check first if this driver can be supported with little effort. > Also, I should warn you that I am not a Linux expert. Thus, operations like > updating/recompiling the kernel are new to me and I'll need some help working > through the process. Of course! You are welcome. What Linux distribution do you use? Wolfgang.