SocketCAN Driver

[Augusto Fraga Giachero]

Thank you, I'll study it!

Em 17 de out de 2016 10:25 AM, "Daniel." <danielhilst at gmail.com> escreveu:

>

> If you're dealing with network drivers you will want to know about socket
buffs: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1312
> LDD3 has a chapter for network drivers too:
http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-17
>
>
> Regards :)
>
> 2016-10-17 10:22 GMT-02:00 Daniel. <danielhilst at gmail.com>:

>>

>> CAN drivers can be found here;
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/net/can/
>>
>> The device driver interface is at dev.c
>>
>> AFAIK the only other files referencing to can outside of drivers/ folder
is http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h#L120
>> You may want to look at docs too:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/can.txt
>> Regards,
>>
>> 2016-10-17 9:05 GMT-02:00 Augusto Fraga Giachero <augustofg96 at gmail.com>:

>>>

>>> I've been reading the source code for the ECI driver and discovered that
>>> it only applies to PCI devices, the IXXAT CAN-to-USB Compact (V1.0) is
>>> accessed through libusb, so please, ignore the ECI Kernel module that
>>> I've attached in the last email.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> On 17-10-2016 08:43, Augusto Fraga Giachero wrote:
>>> > Hello!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I recently started a project that uses the CAN serial protocol using
>>> > microcontrollers. I've got an IXXAT CAN-to-USB Compact (V1.0) adapter
to
>>> > help debugging the CAN bus. The manufacturer of this adapter provides
>>> > the kernel driver and and userspace  libraries for Linux, but it uses
a
>>> > custom API (ECI) instead of SocketCAN (and I really need to use
>>> > SocketCAN). The manufacturer also provides a SocketCAN driver but only
>>> > for the CAN-to-USB Compact (V2.0), so it doesn't with what I have.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I'm thinking in modifying the the SocketCAN driver to support the V1.0
>>> > adapter, but I don't have any experience in kernel driver development.
>>> > I've a solid C knowledge and a lot of experience in firmware
development
>>> > for microcontrollers. Can someone show me where to find relevant
>>> > information regarding SocketCAN, USB drivers development? I don't know
>>> > if this challenge is above my skills.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I've attached both drivers and a patch for the usb-to-can_v2_socketcan
>>> > that substitutes the "netdev->trans_start =" deference to
>>> > "netif_trans_update(netdev);", so you can compile for kernels newer
than
>>> > 4.4.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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