[PATCH v2 09/13] can: pruss CAN driver.

[Subhasish Ghosh]

That is correct, we receive only pre-programmed CAN ids and "all" or "range" 
implementation is not there in the PRU firmware.
Will check the sysfs option and update.

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From: "Wolfgang Grandegger" <wg at grandegger.com>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 12:53 PM
To: "Subhasish Ghosh" <subhasish at mistralsolutions.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/13] can: pruss CAN driver.

> On 02/14/2011 05:54 AM, Subhasish Ghosh wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had a discussion regarding this with Wolfgang:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/socketcan-users@lists.berlios.de/msg00324.html
>>
>> The problem here is that we must configure the mailbox ID's and this
>> support is not available in the socketCan sub-system.
>
> To understand you correctly. A mailbox (or message object) can *only*
> receive messages with the pre-programmed CAN id? Isn't there a chance to
> receive all or a range of CAN ids? That's a very unusual piece of
> hardware. Anyway, using kernel configuration parameters to define the
> CAN id's would be the less flexible method. The user will not have a
> chance to change them at run-time. Using SysFS files would already be
> much better.
>
> Wolfgang.