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Date:   Wed, 8 Jun 2022 14:55:49 +0200
From:   Max Staudt <max@enpas.org>
To:     Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Cc:     Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] can: slcan: extend supported features
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 09:19:47 +0200
Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> wrote:

> 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.

Agreed. It does look good, and I'm glad to see slcan get some
love.

Thanks Dario!


Max