From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Grandegger Subject: Re: Staging: cpc-usb CAN driver TODO list Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:58:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4AA4CB3F.3060200@grandegger.com> References: <4AA262CB.7060607@hartkopp.net> <4AA4A0A2.2070907@ems-wuensche.com> <4AA4B0C6.5080608@grandegger.com> <4AA4BDE6.7000707@ems-wuensche.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Oliver Hartkopp , Greg KH , Linux Netdev List , Felipe Balbi To: Sebastian Haas Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:44974 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752470AbZIGI6o (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 04:58:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4AA4BDE6.7000707@ems-wuensche.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/07/2009 10:01 AM, Sebastian Haas wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wolfgang, > > Wolfgang Grandegger schrieb: >> Hi Sebastian, >> >> On 09/07/2009 07:56 AM, Sebastian Haas wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Oliver, >>> >>> I'm not yet sure how to actually start the development. There is so much >>> to do, and I've not much time to spend on this, unfortunately. Because >>> of this I can't rewrite the whole driver on my own in order to get a >>> Socket-CAN driver but I can provide support, review patches, rent >>> devices and make tests here. >>> >>> Oliver, you are not familiar with USB and I'm not very familiar with CAN >>> netdev internals, why not combining these twos. You are writing the CAN >>> part and write the USB part. >>> >>> I'll also write a specification which contains any information you need >>> to develop a CAN driver for the device (commands, sequences, error >>> handling). >> >> Alternatively, EMS Wuensche could also hire an expert doing the job ;-). >> Note that we do a lot of Socket-CAN work in our free time, which is a >> limited resource. Progress depends on funding to a certain extend. > Money is also a limited resource. ;-) > > Let's become serious again, I know and respect that many of Socket-CAN > and the Staging developers spend their free time working on it. We will > of course work on the driver, but since we've not much time it may take > several months. If someone wants to help, we would be very glad and > happy to support the person as far as we can with devices, answers and > tests. OK, no problem. I really appreciate your support for Socket-CAN so far. Thanks, Wolfgang.