[Canbus4linux-developers] Re: RFC: CAN for 2.6 kernel subsystem: net or char device

[<je...@ar...>]

Hi Andrey,
this was my first device driver I've written and the only reason was,
that a netdev driver was more complex as a char dev driver.

Also I think a netdev driver is not the correct way to handle CAN
messages (you can setup IP addresses with ifconfig ?!). But if you want
to handle TCP messages over CAN, than I think a netdev driver is the
first choice.


regards
J=FCrgen



Am Dienstag, den 15.03.2005, 12:41 +0300 schrieb Andrey Volkov:
> Hello, Jurgen
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> I look through your code (and not only your), and have, may be strange,=
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> next question:
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> May be you, could told me why everyone who wrote CANbus driver (you,=20
> peak, kvaser etc) always use char dev, but not netdev for it? May be=20
> exist some global pitfall, which I couldn't see, to use netdev?
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> Regards
> Andrey.
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> P.S. My job on MPC5200 CAN in progress (chip part nearly to be done),
> but I stopped above problem.
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