2022-11-04 17:55:17

by Harald Mommer

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Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] can: virtio: virtio-can driver

Hello,

this is a new virtio-can driver.

The proposed addition to the virtio specification which should match
this driver has been sent 25-Aug-2022 and can be found here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

(Got no comments on the updated specification proposal now.)

The RFC driver version has been sent 25-Aug-2022 and can be found here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

- Small update to be compilable against newest kernel

- netif_napi_add() prototype change

- Address the review comments got from Arnd Bergmann, Oliver Hartkopp,
Marc Kleine-Budde:

- Remove virtio_can_hexdump()
- Use completion instead of polling
- Restructure usage of spinlock in virtio_can_start_xmit()
- Save kicks in virtio_can_start_xmit()
- Minimize usage of BUG_ON()
- Make driver less noisy
- Move register_virtio_candev() down in code
- Remove unwanted MISRA habits used to in a former life
- Treat bitmasks as bitmasks
- Remove excessive usage of netdev_warn() silently sanitizing
- Fix RTR frame handling with payload != 0
- Work through checkpatch problems
- Clarify license
- Remove some pointless leftover comments

Regards
Harald