[U-Boot] CAN console

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 26 October 2009 07:09:03 Matthias Wei?er wrote:
> Mike Frysinger schrieb:
> > On Monday 26 October 2009 04:20:02 Matthias Wei?er wrote:
> >> I have a device here which has only a CAN interface to the
> >> outside world. I am currently thinking about implementing
> >> a "serial" driver using the CAN controller.
> >>
> >> Is there any chance to get this accepted in the public u-boot
> >> tree?
> >
> > someone just posted a port of the Linux CAN framework.  if your driver
> > used that to implement a serial layer, i dont see why it wouldnt be
> > accepted.
> 
> Well, that means that I have to implement a full functional CAN driver
> and then additionally add a serial driver using the (completely new) CAN
> framework. My idea was that I just add a serial_ccan.c to drivers/serial.

you would rather write a driver that is specific to one CAN hardware ?  
writing it to a common framework would allow every one with a CAN driver to 
use it ...
-mike
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