This series will add a driver for Softing PCMCIA CAN card. This core CAN networking code exists for a few years in the socketCAN repository. The updates since the latest socketCAN version: * PCMCIA interfacing changed * seperation between the two drivers via a platform:softing device * added conditional bus-error reporting
About the platform_device ... Softing Gmbh has PCMCIA & PCI cards. Both share the same Dual Port RAM (DPRAM) interface. Therefore, the driver is split in 2 stages: [1/2] softing.ko: Generic platform bus device driver It expects a platform:softing device with an IO range that contains the DPRAM, and an IRQ line. [2/2] softing_cs.ko: PCMCIA driver This driver will create a platform:softing device on top of the pcmcia device. The 2 driver are not linked in a way that softing.ko depends on softing_cs.ko or vice versa. The reason for doing so is that the DPRAM interface takes quite some code, and building it directly on the PCMCIA or PCI device was difficult to follow. The present design eliminates the need for exotic sysfs API's since all sysfs attributes know they are attached to a platform_device. Kurt _______________________________________________ Socketcan-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-core
