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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add Microchip MCP25XXFD CAN driver
To:     Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>,
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On 6/10/20 9:44 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This series adds CAN network driver support for Microchip MCP25XXFD CAN
> Controller with MCP2517FD as the target controller version. This series is
> mostly inspired (or taken) from the previous iterations posted by Martin Sperl.
> I've trimmed down the parts which are not necessary for the initial version
> to ease review. Still the series is relatively huge but I hope to get some
> reviews (post -rcX ofc!).
> 
> Link to the origial series posted by Martin:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg284462.html
> 
> I've not changed the functionality much but done some considerable amount of
> cleanups and also preserved the authorship of Martin for all the patches he has
> posted earlier. This series has been tested on 96Boards RB3 platform by myself
> and Martin has tested the previous version on Rpi3 with external MCP2517FD
> controller.

I initially started looking at Martin's driver and it was not using several
modern CAN driver infrastructures. I then posted some cleanup patches but Martin
was not working on the driver any more. Then I decided to rewrite the driver,
that is the one I'm hoping to mainline soon.

Can you give it a try?

https://github.com/marckleinebudde/linux/commits/v5.6-rpi/mcp25xxfd-20200607-41

Marc

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