[En-Nut-Discussion] RFC: CAN Bus driver buffer handling

[Ole Reinhardt]

Hi all,

I'm currently writing a CAN bus driver for the SAM7x and try to reuse
the same API the other platforms (ATMega with SJA1000 / AT90CAN) use.

I noticed that both mentioned drivers implement their own buffer
structure for rx / tx buffering. Both are based on the same concept.

I'd better like a common concept for can bus buffering and would like to
implement a can bus buffer api in dev/can_dev.c which might be used
commonly by all drivers. I'd add a rx and tx buffer pointer to the
CANINFO struct.

This concept would also allow to have multiple can bus drivers in one
system.

Any comments?

bye,

Ole

PS: I could adapt sja1000.c accordingly. But atcan.c (AT90CAN driver)
directly includes the buffer handling into the interrupt routine so I'd
like to ask henrik to adapt his driver.

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