Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262381AbVCOLFL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:05:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261730AbVCOLFL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:05:11 -0500 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:64429 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261725AbVCOLFC (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:05:02 -0500 Subject: Re: RFC: CANbus subsytem for 2.6 kernel (char or netdev) From: Benedikt Spranger To: Andrey Volkov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4236B1D1.7030707@varma-el.com> References: <4236B1D1.7030707@varma-el.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:04:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1110884699.5812.10.camel@atlas.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 540 Lines: 15 > Anyone could told me, why everyone, who wrote CANbus driver (peak, > kvaser etc) always use char dev, but not netdev for it? May be exist > some global pitfall, which I couldn't see, which prevent to use netdev? Maybe you try out: http://www.linutronix.de/data/linux-2.6.11-can.diff Bene - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/