How to design protocol stack with can-bus driver of character driver

[Daniel Baluta]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:42 PM, cheng chen <freakrobot at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am working on vehicle body control system with can-bus as my BE final
> project.
> It contains three parts.
> 1.CAN chip driver
> 2.CAN-bus protocol stack
> 3.UI
> The problem is that I already have written the CAN chip driver as  a
> character device driver using IO-simulated SPI.
> So with this character driver API open() read() write() ioctl(), I start to
> wonder where can I put my protocol stack?
> Or should rewrite the driver in network device frameworks?

I strongly recommend you to have a look at Socket CAN ([1]).

thanks,
Daniel.

[1] http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.37/Documentation/networking/can.txt