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Re: CAN bus knowhow?

From: John Dallaway <jld at ecoscentric dot com>
To: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
Cc: ecos-maintainers at ecos dot sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:49:10 +0100
Subject: Re: CAN bus knowhow?
References: <20050608195904.GK31731@lunn.ch> <1118261186.22823.189.camel@hermes> <42A8120A.1040405@ecoscentric.com>

Hi Gary and all eCos maintainers

John Dallaway wrote:

> eCosCentric already has a generic CAN I/O layer and we are keen to
> ensure that we do not end up with two incompatible CAN APIs in the eCos
> world. I will ask Nick Garnett to review Uwe Kindler's patches to assess
> the scope for merging of the two APIs. Please hold on checking anything
> in until this review is complete.

It is now clear that there is no scope for merging of the two APIs. The
eCosCentric API presents CAN peripherals as networked devices, while Uwe
Kindler's API adopts a serial I/O approach. Feel free to proceed with
the processing of Uwe Kindler's contribution.

John Dallaway
eCosCentric Limited

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