Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] can: slcan: remove legacy infrastructure

From: Marc Kleine-Budde
Date: Mon Jul 25 2022 - 08:38:26 EST


On 25.07.2022 08:54:15, Dario Binacchi wrote:
> Taking inspiration from the drivers/net/can/can327.c driver and at the
> suggestion of its author Max Staudt, I removed legacy stuff like
> `SLCAN_MAGIC' and `slcan_devs' resulting in simplification of the code
> and its maintainability.
>
> The use of slcan_devs is derived from a very old kernel, since slip.c
> is about 30 years old, so today's kernel allows us to remove it.
>
> The .hangup() ldisc function, which only called the ldisc .close(), has
> been removed since the ldisc layer calls .close() in a good place
> anyway.
>
> The old slcanX name has been dropped in order to use the standard canX
> interface naming. It has been assumed that this change does not break
> the user space as the slcan driver provides an ioctl to resolve from tty
> fd to netdev name.

Is there a man page that documents this iotcl? Please add it and/or the
IOCTL name.

> The `maxdev' module parameter has also been removed.
>
> CC: Max Staudt <max@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:

Nitpick:
Changes since RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220716170007.2020037-1-dario.binacchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> - Update the commit description.
> - Drop the old "slcan" name to use the standard canX interface naming.
>
> drivers/net/can/slcan/slcan-core.c | 318 ++++++-----------------------
> 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 255 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/slcan/slcan-core.c b/drivers/net/can/slcan/slcan-core.c
> index c3dd7468a066..2c546f4a7981 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/slcan/slcan-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/slcan/slcan-core.c

[...]

> @@ -898,72 +799,49 @@ static int slcan_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
> if (!tty->ops->write)
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
> - /* RTnetlink lock is misused here to serialize concurrent
> - * opens of slcan channels. There are better ways, but it is
> - * the simplest one.
> - */
> - rtnl_lock();
> + dev = alloc_candev(sizeof(*sl), 1);
> + if (!dev)
> + return -ENFILE;
>
> - /* Collect hanged up channels. */
> - slc_sync();
> + sl = netdev_priv(dev);
>
> - sl = tty->disc_data;
> + /* Configure TTY interface */
> + tty->receive_room = 65536; /* We don't flow control */
> + sl->rcount = 0;
> + sl->xleft = 0;

Nitpick: Please use 1 space in front of the =.

regards,
Marc

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