Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> Are there any plans to mainline slcan? Or what issues are still open 
> (kernel/2.6/README.known-issues doesn't have any)?
> 

Hi Yegor,

so far i have three items on my personal mainlining list:

- netlink gateway net/can/gw.c (needs an API rework to handle non-CAN
networks, working on that topic here)

- ISO15765-2 transport protocol net/can/isotp.c (needs some more feedback from
users - currently got only three peoples using it)

- SLCAN driver drivers/net/can/slcan.c

I don't have any general objections on mainlining the slcan.c - mostly i do
have the gut feeling that we should take a closer look into the latest changes
of the tty-layer and the changes that have been made to slip.c (where slcan.c
is derived from mostly).

If you are interested in reviewing the slcan driver you're invited to do so.

I also wonder if the slcan driver should support the IFF_ECHO functionality as
i'm quite sure that checking the "\n" on the receiver side is not really a
proper indicator for a successfully transmission of a single CAN frame. "\n"'s
are also in the RX ASCII stream ... the slcan driver is a just a driver for
low cost interfaces using a simple unreliable ASCII communication protocol.
IMO the slcan driver can never act better than the underlying protocol.

So finally only my gut feeling seems to slow down the mainlining schedule ;-)

Best regards,
Oliver

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