Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add support for MCP25XXFD SPI-CAN Network driver

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 07:58:38PM +0200, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
> On di, 15 sep 2020 21:49:25 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:08:00PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > 
> > Just a quick question: I don't see any activity on this specific driver for
> > sometime (back in Martin days itself). Is it due to lack of reviewers or
> > it is due to the patch size (lines of code) so that nobody is interested
> > in reviewing?
> 
> If you look around, there are currently several versions of mcp251x
> driver around, shipped by hardware vendors who glue the chip on there
> SOM etc.
> Until something more-or-less clean becomes mainline, the effort remains
> spread.
> 
> A problem to import a complete driver is that ... its complete.
> There was an suggestion to split into several patches, but that does not
> really affect the review work.
> 
> The original driver failed to initialize under a loaded CAN bus, on my
> desk. The current driver is more cleanly written than the original
> and it seems to survive more than 1 use case (although I have a MAB overflow
> report pending to investigate).
> So, this is a good candidate for mainline.
> 

I just saw that you've pushed these patches to your testing branch. Does this
mean that you're going to include it in v5.10 PR?

Thanks,
Mani

> Kind regards,
> Kurt