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| author | Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be> | 2011-01-11 05:32:31 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-01-22 05:15:17 +0100 |
| commit | 03fd3cf5a179da12e6bee5e9d74b648aff68dc4c (patch) | |
| tree | ef8c801d7f07daa4af3cade721f9a99cffd2b0f8 /drivers/net/can/softing/Kconfig | |
| parent | atm: idt77105: fix fetch_stats() result (diff) | |
| download | linux-03fd3cf5a179da12e6bee5e9d74b648aff68dc4c.tar.xz linux-03fd3cf5a179da12e6bee5e9d74b648aff68dc4c.zip | |
can: add driver for Softing card
This patch adds a driver for the platform:softing device.
This will create (up to) 2 CAN network devices from 1
platform:softing device
Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/can/softing/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/can/softing/Kconfig | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/softing/Kconfig b/drivers/net/can/softing/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..072f337f42e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/net/can/softing/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +config CAN_SOFTING + tristate "Softing Gmbh CAN generic support" + depends on CAN_DEV + ---help--- + Support for CAN cards from Softing Gmbh & some cards + from Vector Gmbh. + Softing Gmbh CAN cards come with 1 or 2 physical busses. + Those cards typically use Dual Port RAM to communicate + with the host CPU. The interface is then identical for PCI + and PCMCIA cards. This driver operates on a platform device, + which has been created by softing_cs or softing_pci driver. + Warning: + The API of the card does not allow fine control per bus, but + controls the 2 busses on the card together. + As such, some actions (start/stop/busoff recovery) on 1 bus + must bring down the other bus too temporarily. |