linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] LIN support for Linux

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Date:   Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:21:44 +0100
From:   Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
To:     Christoph Fritz <christoph.fritz@...dev.de>,
        Pavel Pisa <pisa@....felk.cvut.cz>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Andreas Lauser <andreas.lauser@...tion.io>,
        Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
        Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-can@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] LIN support for Linux

Hello Christoph,

are you already aware of this LIN project that uses the Linux SocketCAN 
infrastructure and implements the LIN protocol based on a serial tty 
adaption (which the serial LIN protocol mainly is)?

https://github.com/lin-bus

IIRC the implementation of the master/slave timings was the biggest 
challenge and your approach seems to offload this problem to your 
USB-attached hardware right?

Can I assume there will be a similar CAN-controlled programming 
interface to create real time master/slave protocol frames like in a 
usual CAN/LIN adapter (e.g. 
https://www.peak-system.com/PCAN-LIN.213.0.html) ??

Best regards,
Oliver


On 27.11.22 20:02, Christoph Fritz wrote:
> The intention of this series is to kick off a discussion about how to
> support LIN (ISO 17987) [0] in Linux.
> 
> This series consist of two patches which are two individual proposals
> for adding LIN abstraction into the kernel.
> 
> One approach is to add LIN ontop of CANFD:
>    [RFC] can: introduce LIN abstraction
> 
> The other approach is adding a new type of CAN-socket:
>    [RFC] can: Add LIN proto skeleton
> 
> These patches are abstracting LIN so that actual device drivers can
> make use of it.
> 
> For reference, the LIN-ontop-of-CANFD variant already has a device
> driver using it (not part of this series). It is a specially built USB
> LIN-BUS adapter hardware called hexLIN [1].  Its purpose is mainly to
> test, adapt and discuss different LIN APIs for mainline Linux kernel.
> But it can already be used productively as a Linux LIN node in
> controller (master) and responder (slave) mode. By sysfs, hexLIN
> supports different checksum calculations and setting up a
> responder-table.
> 
> For more info about hexLIN, see link below [1].
> 
> We are looking for partners with Linux based LIN projects for funding.
> 
> [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interconnect_Network
> [1]: https://hexdev.de/hexlin/
> 
> Christoph Fritz (1):
>    [RFC] can: Introduce LIN bus as CANFD abstraction
> 
> Richard Weinberger (1):
>    [RFC] can: Add LIN proto skeleton
> 
>   drivers/net/can/Kconfig          |  10 ++
>   drivers/net/can/Makefile         |   1 +
>   drivers/net/can/lin.c            | 181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/net/lin.h                |  30 +++++
>   include/uapi/linux/can.h         |   8 +-
>   include/uapi/linux/can/lin.h     |  15 +++
>   include/uapi/linux/can/netlink.h |   1 +
>   net/can/Kconfig                  |   5 +
>   net/can/Makefile                 |   3 +
>   net/can/lin.c                    | 207 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   10 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/net/can/lin.c
>   create mode 100644 include/net/lin.h
>   create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/can/lin.h
>   create mode 100644 net/can/lin.c
>