[PATCH] can: don't count arbitration lose as an error

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

On 11/27/20 11:30 AM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 11/27/20 10:59 AM, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
>> Losing arbitration is normal in a CAN-bus network, it means that a
>> higher priority frame is being send and the pending message will be
>> retried later. Hence most driver only increment arbitration_lost, but
>> the sja1000 and sun4i driver also incremeant tx_error, causing errors
>> to be reported on a normal functioning CAN-bus. So stop counting them
>> as errors.
> 
> Sounds plausible.
> 
>> For completeness, the Kvaser USB hybra also increments the tx_error
>> on arbitration lose, but it does so in single shot. Since in that
>> case the message is not retried, that behaviour is kept.
> 
> You mean only in one shot mode? What about one shot mode on the sja1000 cores?
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jeroen Hofstee <jhofstee at victronenergy.com>
> 
> I've split this into two patches, and added Fixes: lines, and pushed this for
> now to linux-can/sja1000.

Added to linux-can/testing

Tnx,
Marc

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