[PATCH v2 5/5] can: flexcan: Add support for non RX-FIFO mode

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

On 05/14/2015 01:33 PM, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
> This patch adds support for non RX-FIFO (legacy) mode in
> the flexcan driver.
> 
> On certain SoCs, the RX-FIFO support might be broken, as
> a result we need to fall-back on the legacy (non RX-FIFO)
> mode to receive CAN frames.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sakar Arora <Sakar.Arora at freescale.com>

The non FIFO mode doesn't guarantee the order of the incoming frames,
not does not even try to...this is not acceptable. I'm currently working
on a patch by David Jander that brings in non FIFO mode, but tries to
keep the order of the frames.

Marc
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