In November last year, I sent an RFC to introduce CAN XL [1]. That
RFC, despite positive feedback, was put on hold due to some unanswered
question concerning the PWM encoding [2].
While stuck, some small preparation work was done in parallel in [3]
by refactoring the struct can_priv and doing some trivial clean-up and
renaming. Initially, [3] received zero feedback but was eventually
merged after splitting it in smaller parts and resending it.
Finally, in July this year, we clarified the remaining mysteries about
PWM calculation, thus unlocking the series. Summer being a bit busy
because of some personal matters brings us to now.
After doing all the refactoring and adding all the CAN XL features,
the final result is more than 30 patches, definitively too much for a
single series. So I am splitting the remaining changes three:
- can: rework the CAN MTU logic [4]
- can: netlink: preparation before introduction of CAN XL (this series)
- CAN XL (will come right after the two preparation series get merged)
And thus, this series continues and finishes the preparation work done
in [3] and [4]. It contains all the refactoring needed to smoothly
introduce CAN XL. The goal is to:
- split the functions in smaller pieces: CAN XL will introduce a
fair amount of code. And some functions which are already fairly
long (86 lines for can_validate(), 215 lines for can_changelink())
would grow to disproportionate sizes if the CAN XL logic were to
be inlined in those functions.
- repurpose the existing code to handle both CAN FD and CAN XL: a
huge part of CAN XL simply reuses the CAN FD logic. All the
existing CAN FD logic is made more generic to handle both CAN FD
and XL.
In more details:
- Patch #1 moves struct data_bittiming_params from dev.h to
bittiming.h and patch #2 makes can_get_relative_tdco() FD agnostic
before also moving it to bittiming.h.
- Patch #3 adds some comments to netlink.h tagging which IFLA
symbols are FD specific.
- Patches #4 to #6 are refactoring can_validate() and
can_validate_bittiming().
- Patches #7 to #11 are refactoring can_changelink() and
can_tdc_changelink().
- Patches #12 and #13 are refactoring can_get_size() and
can_tdc_get_size().
- Patches #14 to #17 are refactoring can_fill_info() and
can_tdc_fill_info().
- Patch #18 makes can_calc_tdco() FD agnostic.
- Patch #19 adds can_get_ctrlmode_str() which converts control mode
flags into strings. This is done in preparation of patch #20.
- Patch #20 is the final patch and improves the user experience by
providing detailed error messages whenever invalid parameters are
provided. All those error messages came into handy when debugging
the upcoming CAN XL patches.
Aside from the last patch, the other changes do not impact any of the
existing functionalities.
The follow up series which introduces CAN XL is nearly completed but
will be sent only once this one is approved: one thing at a time, I do
not want to overwhelm people (including myself).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20241110155902.72807-16-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/c4771c16-c578-4a6d-baee-918fe276dbe9@wanadoo.fr/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20241110155902.72807-16-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20250923-can-fix-mtu-v2-0-984f9868db69@kernel.org/
To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Cc: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
Cc: Stéphane Grosjean <stephane.grosjean@hms-networks.com>
Cc: Robert Nawrath <mbro1689@gmail.com>
Cc: Minh Le <minh.le.aj@renesas.com>
Cc: Duy Nguyen <duy.nguyen.rh@renesas.com>
Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
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Changes in v4:
- v3 was based on Linus tree and, despite
b4 prep --check-deps
giving no warnings, did not apply soomthly to net-next. Rebase on
net-next.
Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923-canxl-netlink-prep-v3-0-87a7684333f3@kernel.org
Changes in v3:
- Rebase on top of the "can: rework the CAN MTU logic" series.
- Add a static_assert() in can_validate_databittiming() to prove
that the nla attributes were already correctly aligned.
- Replace the ! operator by ~ to fix a bug in patch #7:
"can: netlink: refactor CAN_CTRLMODE_TDC_{AUTO,MANUAL} flag reset logic".
Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250910-canxl-netlink-prep-v2-0-f128d4083721@kernel.org
Changes in v2:
- Move can_validate()'s comment block to can_validate_databittiming().
Consequently,
[PATCH 07/21] can: netlink: remove comment in can_validate()
from v1 is removed.
- Change any occurrences of WARN_ON(1) into return -EOPNOTSUPP to
suppress the three gcc warnings which were reported by the kernel
test robot:
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/202509050259.NjPdQyAD-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/202509050404.ZLQknagH-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/202509050541.1FKRbqOi-lkp@intel.com/
- Small rewrite of patch #12 "can: netlink: make can_tdc_get_size()
FD agnostic" description to add more details.
Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250903-canxl-netlink-prep-v1-0-904bd6037cd9@kernel.org
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Vincent Mailhol (20):
can: dev: move struct data_bittiming_params to linux/can/bittiming.h
can: dev: make can_get_relative_tdco() FD agnostic and move it to bittiming.h
can: netlink: document which symbols are FD specific
can: netlink: refactor can_validate_bittiming()
can: netlink: add can_validate_tdc()
can: netlink: add can_validate_databittiming()
can: netlink: refactor CAN_CTRLMODE_TDC_{AUTO,MANUAL} flag reset logic
can: netlink: remove useless check in can_tdc_changelink()
can: netlink: make can_tdc_changelink() FD agnostic
can: netlink: add can_dtb_changelink()
can: netlink: add can_ctrlmode_changelink()
can: netlink: make can_tdc_get_size() FD agnostic
can: netlink: add can_data_bittiming_get_size()
can: netlink: add can_bittiming_fill_info()
can: netlink: add can_bittiming_const_fill_info()
can: netlink: add can_bitrate_const_fill_info()
can: netlink: make can_tdc_fill_info() FD agnostic
can: calc_bittiming: make can_calc_tdco() FD agnostic
can: dev: add can_get_ctrlmode_str()
can: netlink: add userland error messages
drivers/net/can/dev/calc_bittiming.c | 10 +-
drivers/net/can/dev/dev.c | 33 ++
drivers/net/can/dev/netlink.c | 627 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
include/linux/can/bittiming.h | 48 ++-
include/linux/can/dev.h | 42 +--
include/uapi/linux/can/netlink.h | 14 +-
6 files changed, 485 insertions(+), 289 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 9b277fca90c39c8b749e659bf5c23e924c46c93b
change-id: 20250831-canxl-netlink-prep-9dbf8498fd9d
prerequisite-change-id: 20250915-can-fix-mtu-050a94b563a0:v3
prerequisite-patch-id: 64b7803b5453bdd2ada5f2918901ad092e4ea1cf
prerequisite-patch-id: 6aecc3f1db1cd342e3b204310464179ca66b52ba
prerequisite-patch-id: 10e3a79796f2966733349c4cfcc1a61a49bc20af
prerequisite-patch-id: 5ddc3c20a99f60bddb62d58eb192facf0eb25b75
Best regards,
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Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>