From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Grandegger Subject: Re: Staging: cpc-usb CAN driver TODO list Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:05:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4AA4B0C6.5080608@grandegger.com> References: <4AA262CB.7060607@hartkopp.net> <4AA4A0A2.2070907@ems-wuensche.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Oliver Hartkopp , Greg KH , Linux Netdev List , Felipe Balbi To: Sebastian Haas Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:40142 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750946AbZIGHFs (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 03:05:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4AA4A0A2.2070907@ems-wuensche.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Sebastian, On 09/07/2009 07:56 AM, Sebastian Haas wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Oliver, > > I'm not yet sure how to actually start the development. There is so much > to do, and I've not much time to spend on this, unfortunately. Because > of this I can't rewrite the whole driver on my own in order to get a > Socket-CAN driver but I can provide support, review patches, rent > devices and make tests here. > > Oliver, you are not familiar with USB and I'm not very familiar with CAN > netdev internals, why not combining these twos. You are writing the CAN > part and write the USB part. > > I'll also write a specification which contains any information you need > to develop a CAN driver for the device (commands, sequences, error > handling). Alternatively, EMS Wuensche could also hire an expert doing the job ;-). Note that we do a lot of Socket-CAN work in our free time, which is a limited resource. Progress depends on funding to a certain extend. Wolfgang.