Re: New datasource implementation

[Felix Obenhuber <felix () obenhuber de>]

On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 16:58 +0200, Akos Vandra wrote:
> Yes, I have thought about it, but when I started writing the pcap
> driver, I didn't know about socketcan, and this user-space driver was
> already mostly ready (had to be ported a wee bit from c++), as I have
> used an own program to display the can frames before.
>
> Problem is, I'm not sure I have the courage to start kernel driver
> development :) and I had a hard time finding information on how a
> socketcan driver should behave on the net with a few google searches.

There are drivers for USB CAN dongles for SocketCAN available. You can
take a look at:
http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/socketcan/trunk/kernel/2.6/drivers/net/can/usb/
http://www.peak-system.com/fileadmin/media/linux/index.htm

If you have questions - ask the helpful guys on the SocketCAN list.

> Also I'm not sure if m$ windows supports socketcan?

No.


Felix

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