netdev - Re: [PATCH] can: don't count arbitration lose as an error

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Date:   Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:30:15 +0100
From:   Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:     Jeroen Hofstee <jhofstee@...tronenergy.com>,
        linux-can@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...l.net>,
        "open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "moderated list:ARM/Allwinner sunXi SoC support" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] can: don't count arbitration lose as an error

On 11/27/20 10:59 AM, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
> Losing arbitration is normal in a CAN-bus network, it means that a
> higher priority frame is being send and the pending message will be
> retried later. Hence most driver only increment arbitration_lost, but
> the sja1000 and sun4i driver also incremeant tx_error, causing errors
> to be reported on a normal functioning CAN-bus. So stop counting them
> as errors.

Sounds plausible.

> For completeness, the Kvaser USB hybra also increments the tx_error
> on arbitration lose, but it does so in single shot. Since in that
> case the message is not retried, that behaviour is kept.

You mean only in one shot mode? What about one shot mode on the sja1000 cores?

> Signed-off-by: Jeroen Hofstee <jhofstee@...tronenergy.com>

I've split this into two patches, and added Fixes: lines, and pushed this for
now to linux-can/sja1000.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkl/linux-can.git/log/?h=sja1000

regards,
Marc

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