linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] can: slcan: extend supported features

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Date:   Wed, 8 Jun 2022 09:19:47 +0200
From:   Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:     Max Staudt <max@...as.org>
Cc:     Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@...rulasolutions.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Amarula patchwork <linux-amarula@...rulasolutions.com>,
        michael@...rulasolutions.com,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>,
        Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
        linux-can@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] can: slcan: extend supported features

On 08.06.2022 02:15:37, Max Staudt wrote:
> To speed up the slcan cleanup, may I suggest looking at can327?
> 
> It started as a modification of slcan, and over the past few months,
> it has gone through several review rounds in upstreaming. In fact, a
> *ton* of things pointed out during reviews would apply 1:1 to slcan.
> 
> What's more, there's legacy stuff that's no longer needed. No
> SLCAN_MAGIC, no slcan_devs, ... it's all gone in can327. May I suggest
> you have a look at it and bring slcan's boilerplate in line with it?

+1

Most of Dario's series looks good. I suggest that we mainline this
first. If there's interest and energy the slcan driver can be reworked
to re-use the more modern concepts of the can327 driver.

> It's certainly not perfect (7 patch series and counting, and that's
> just the public ones), but I'm sure that looking at the two drivers
> side-by-side could serve as a good starting point, to avoid
> re-reviewing the same things all over again.

regards,
Marc

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