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Re: Enable flexcan kernel module



Hello,

On 10/05/2018 11:41 AM, Maciej Pijanowski wrote:
> This is my first interaction with the Debian community - I hope
> this would be the correct list for such a message.
> 
> I'm working with NXP i.MX6 boards quite a lot and they do already
> have good mainline support. I've been using a Debian on them
> occasionally for some time now (rootfs crafted via debootstrap).
> Recently I needed to use the CAN interface on the board, but it seems
> that the driver I need (flexcan) is not available.
> 
> Is there any particular reason behind this? Can this driver be enabled
> in future releases? I can see that the other CAN drivers are (for example
> the CONFIG_CAN_SUN4I=m). That would save the many i.MX6 board
> users the necessity to compile own kernel for Debian.

Formally the right would be to open a bug report against the kernel
package. But I already enabled this driver for the next upload of
4.19[1], so you don't need to do that.

Best regards
Uwe

[1] https://deb.li/3CW7x

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