Re: [PATCH v10 0/5] can: bxcan: add support for ST bxCAN controller

From: Marc Kleine-Budde
Date: Tue Apr 04 2023 - 07:28:44 EST


On 28.03.2023 11:28:59, Dario Binacchi wrote:
> > Applied to linux-can-next.
>
> Just one last question: To test this series, as described in the cover
> letter, I could not use the iproute2 package since the microcontroller
> is without MMU. I then extended busybox for the ip link command. I
> actually also added the rtnl-link-can.c application to the libmnl
> library. So now I find myself with two applications that have been
> useful to me for this type of use case.
>
> Did I do useless work because I could use other tools?

systemd-networkd also supports CAN configuration, but I this will
probably not work on no-MMU systemd, too.

Then there is:

| https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/tools/canutils
| https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/tools/libsocketcan

that contains canconfig, but it lacks CAN-FD support.

> If instead the tools for this use case are missing, what do you think
> is better to do? Submit to their respective repos or add this
> functionality to another project that I haven't considered ?

Yes, go ahead and upstream your changes!

Marc

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