netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/can: add driver for mscan family & mpc52xx

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Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:08:39 +0100
From:	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>
To:	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	socketcan-core@...ts.berlios.de, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/can: add driver for mscan family & mpc52xx_mscan

Hi Wolfram,

Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:44:05AM +0100, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> Hi Wolfram,
>>
>> thanks for pushing this driver to mainline. I think you should also add
>> a CC to the Devicetree-discuss ML.
> 
> thank you very much for your review! I agree with nearly all of your points and will
> send an update today. The only thing I have doubts about is removing those lines:

Thanks, quite a bit of work.

>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Andrey Volkov <avolkov@...ma-el.com>");
>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CAN port driver for a MSCAN based chips");
> 
> I looked around in the kernel sources and found that they are often present in
> generic modules, even if they can't be used without a wrapper (examples are all
> files in drivers/i2c/algos or drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c). As I'm
> also a bit anxious to fiddle with other people's authorship, I'd prefer to keep
> them.

They do not harm, fine for me.

> Finally, I'll also try to test suspend/resume, but I have to find out if it is
> supported on that board in general.

Maybe somebody else already uses suspend/resume on a MPC5200 board with
Socket-CAN and could provide some feedback.

Wolfgang.
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