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From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Francesco Valla <valla.francesco@gmail.com>
Cc: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	fabio@redaril.me, linux-can@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Documentation: networking: document CAN ISO-TP
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:34:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240321123431.GB356367@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZftkmQfna3HIyYal@fedora>

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 11:35:05PM +0100, Francesco Valla wrote:
> 
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 12:06:25PM +0000, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 11:34:31PM +0100, Francesco Valla wrote:
> > > Document basic concepts, APIs and behaviour of the CAN ISO-TP (ISO
> > > 15765-2) stack.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Francesco Valla <valla.francesco@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Hi Francesco,
> > 
> > As it looks like there will be a v2 of this patchset
> > please consider running checkpatch.pl --codespell
> > and addressing the warnings it reports.
> > 
> 
> Will do before v2, thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> > ...
> > 
> > > +Transport protocol and associated frame types
> > > +---------------------------------------------
> > > +
> > > +When transmitting data using the ISO-TP protocol, the payload can either fit
> > > +inside one single CAN message or not, also considering the overhead the protocol
> > > +is generating and the optional extended addressing. In the first case, the data
> > > +is transmitted at once using a so-called Single Frame (SF). In the second case,
> > > +ISO-TP defines a multi-frame protocol, in which the sender asks (through a First
> > > +Frame - FF) to the receiver the maximum supported size of a macro data block
> > > +(``blocksize``) and the minimum time time between the single CAN messages
> > > +composing such block (``stmin``). Once these informations have been received,
> > 
> > nit: Once this information has
> 
> I never grasped the usage of "information" in English, which is not my
> first language. I'll make this correction here.

I can't explain it properly, but my basic understanding
is that in English information is non-countable and thus has no plural.
Water is another example of a non-countable noun.

> > > +the sender starts to send frames containing fragments of the data payload
> > > +(called Consecutive Frames - CF), stopping after every ``blocksize``-sized block
> > > +to wait confirmation from the receiver (which should then send a Flow Control
> > > +frame - FC - to inform the sender about its availability to receive more data).
> > > +
> > 
> > ...
> 
> Thanks for the review!
> 
> Regards,
> Francesco
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2024-03-21 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-13 22:34 [RFC PATCH 0/1] Documentation: networking: document CAN ISO-TP Francesco Valla
2024-03-13 22:34 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Francesco Valla
2024-03-14 11:20   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2024-03-14 21:12     ` Francesco Valla
2024-03-14 12:59   ` Oliver Hartkopp
2024-03-14 22:38     ` Francesco Valla
2024-03-15  4:55   ` Bagas Sanjaya
2024-03-15 16:36     ` Francesco Valla
2024-03-19 12:06   ` Simon Horman
2024-03-20 22:35     ` Francesco Valla
2024-03-21 12:34       ` Simon Horman [this message]

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