Re: [RFC PATCH v3 8/9] can: slcan: add support to set bit time register (btr)

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

On 26.07.2022 23:02:16, Dario Binacchi wrote:
> It allows to set the bit time register with tunable values.
> The setting can only be changed if the interface is down:
> 
> ip link set dev can0 down
> ethtool --set-tunable can0 can-btr 0x31c
> ip link set dev can0 up

As far as I understand, setting the btr is an alternative way to set the
bitrate, right? I don't like the idea of poking arbitrary values into a
hardware from user space.

Do you have a use case for this?

Marc

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