In commit e2d265d3b5 (canfd: add support for CAN FD in CAN_RAW sockets)
CAN FD frames with a payload length up to 8 byte are passed to legacy
sockets where the CAN FD support was not enabled by the application.
After some discussions with developers at a fair this well meant feature
leads to confusion as no clean switch for CAN / CAN FD is provided to the
application programmer. Additionally a compatibility like this for legacy
CAN_RAW sockets requires some compatibility handling for the sending, e.g.
make CAN2.0 frames a CAN FD frame with BRS at transmission time (?!?).
This will become a mess when people start to develop applications with
real CAN FD hardware. This patch reverts the bad compatibility code
together with the documentation describing the removed feature.
Acked-by: Stephane Grosjean <s.grosjean@peak-system.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Changed MAINTAINERS file to add Documentation/networking/can.txt to the list of
maintained files.
can.txt:
- Globally changed Socket CAN to SocketCAN
- Removed section 3.3 from the document
- Updated Section 7
- Corrected a few simple typos
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: John Whitmore <johnfwhitmore@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch adds documentation about the broadcast manager. It's based on Brian
Thorne's initial patch http://marc.info/?l=linux-can&m=138119382015496&w=2 and
Daniele Venzano's work http://brownhat.org/docs/socketcan.html .
Signed-off-by: Brian Thorne <hardbyte@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniele Venzano <linux@brownhat.org>
Cc: Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
As Heinz-Juergen Oertel pointed out 'CAN error frames' are a already defined
term for the CAN protocol violation indication on the wire.
To avoid confusion with the error messages created by CAN drivers available
via CAN RAW sockets update the documentation and change the naming from
'error frames' to 'error messages' or 'error message frames'.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
CAN has no addressing scheme. It is currently impossible for userspace
to tell is a received CAN frame comes from another process on the local
host, or from a remote CAN device.
This patch add support for userspace applications to distinguish between
'own', 'local' and 'remote' CAN traffic. The distinction is made by returning
flags in msg->msg_flags in the call to recvmsg().
The added documentation explains the introduced flags.
Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch documents the CAN netowrk device drivers interface, removes
obsolete documentation and adds some useful links to CAN resources.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds a usage documentation for the virtual CAN driver (vcan).
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The struct sockaddr_can has been simplified in the code review
process. This patch updates this simplification also in the
associated documentation in can.txt .
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds documentation for the PF_CAN protocol family.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de>
Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann <urs.thuermann@volkswagen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
