Re: I/O CAN driver and MCF52xx FlexCAN device driver

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 04:42 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:49 +0200, Uwe Kindler wrote:
> > > This is a pretty extensive framework and driver.  Do you 
> > have any documentation and test programs to go with it?
> > 
> > At the moment I do not have any documentation and test programs 
> > besides our application that uses the driver. Could you please 
> > tell me what do you expect? I could code a loopback driver for 
> > testing the generic I/O CAN driver - like it is available for 
> > serial driver. But for testing the FlexCAN hardware driver a 
> > running CAN bus is necessary so it is only possible to provide 
> > some interactive tests here. For the documentation part I could 
> > only provide a plain text documentation because I'm not familiar 
> > with SGML documentation.
> 
> At least an example/test which shows how to open, configure, read
> and write packets on the interface.  A simple loopback test would
> be fine.
> 
> Don't worry that it can only run on your FlexCAN hardware - the
> test itself can show how to use the interfaces.
> 
> > 
> > Btw. the I/O CAN driver is very similar to the serial driver 
> > because the serial driver was the base for CAN driver.
> 
> Expect some further comments in a few days - the maintainers are
> examining your contribution now.

I finally have the time to look at this and we (the maintainers)
have decided that it makes sense to merge this code into the main
CVS.

Before I do that, have you made any progress on providing any
documentation or at least a test/example that can be included?
Also, if you've made any changes to the code, you might want to
send me a new patch (send it directly to me).

Thanks

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