Commit e70a3263 authored Jul 19, 2022 by Vincent Mailhol Committed by Marc Kleine-Budde Jul 20, 2022

can: error: specify the values of data[5..7] of CAN error frames

Currently, data[5..7] of struct can_frame, when used as a CAN error
frame, are defined as being "controller specific". Device specific
behaviours are problematic because it prevents someone from writing
code which is portable between devices.

As a matter of fact, data[5] is never used, data[6] is always used to
report TX error counter and data[7] is always used to report RX error
counter. can-utils also relies on this.

This patch updates the comment in the uapi header to specify that
data[5] is reserved (and thus should not be used) and that data[6..7]
are used for error counters.

Fixes: 0d66548a ("[CAN]: Add PF_CAN core module")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220719143550.3681-11-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr


Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>

parent aebe8a24

include/uapi/linux/can/error.h

+4 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@
		#define CAN_ERR_TRX_CANL_SHORT_TO_GND 0x70 /* 0111 0000 */
		#define CAN_ERR_TRX_CANL_SHORT_TO_CANH 0x80 /* 1000 0000 */

		/* controller specific additional information / data[5..7] */
		/* data[5] is reserved (do not use) */

		/* TX error counter / data[6] */
		/* RX error counter / data[7] */

		#endif /* _UAPI_CAN_ERROR_H */