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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/can.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/can.rst b/Documentation/networking/can.rst index 7650c4b5be5f18..ccd321d29a8aaf 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/can.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/can.rst @@ -1398,10 +1398,9 @@ second bit timing has to be specified in order to enable the CAN FD bitrate. Additionally CAN FD capable CAN controllers support up to 64 bytes of payload. The representation of this length in can_frame.len and canfd_frame.len for userspace applications and inside the Linux network -layer is a plain value from 0 .. 64 instead of the CAN 'data length code'. -The data length code was a 1:1 mapping to the payload length in the Classical -CAN frames anyway. The payload length to the bus-relevant DLC mapping is -only performed inside the CAN drivers, preferably with the helper +layer is a plain value from 0 .. 64 instead of the Classical CAN length +which ranges from 0 to 8. The payload length to the bus-relevant DLC mapping +is only performed inside the CAN drivers, preferably with the helper functions can_fd_dlc2len() and can_fd_len2dlc(). The CAN netdevice driver capabilities can be distinguished by the network |