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| author | Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> | 2019-06-12 11:48:56 -0400 |
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| committer | Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> | 2019-07-24 10:31:55 +0200 |
| commit | 26bca9fe5f1dcd9093f5ed17fcb78d1f6fb32e5e (patch) | |
| tree | 8897b3b1ab476cba0f34e2ccc6dfdb2a7fab7d66 /net/can/Kconfig | |
| parent | 64d6ce8fe48e4768d3bcba7873a1a368162af334 (diff) | |
can: Kconfig: correct history of the CAN protocol
Current history of CAN protocol is wrong, fix it in the Kconfig file.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/can/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/can/Kconfig | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/can/Kconfig b/net/can/Kconfig index 0f9fe846ddef..d4319aa3e1b1 100644 --- a/net/can/Kconfig +++ b/net/can/Kconfig @@ -8,11 +8,12 @@ menuconfig CAN tristate "CAN bus subsystem support" ---help--- Controller Area Network (CAN) is a slow (up to 1Mbit/s) serial - communications protocol which was developed by Bosch in - 1991, mainly for automotive, but now widely used in marine - (NMEA2000), industrial, and medical applications. - More information on the CAN network protocol family PF_CAN - is contained in <Documentation/networking/can.rst>. + communications protocol. Development of the CAN bus started in + 1983 at Robert Bosch GmbH, and the protocol was officially + released in 1986. The CAN bus was originally mainly for automotive, + but is now widely used in marine (NMEA2000), industrial, and medical + applications. More information on the CAN network protocol family + PF_CAN is contained in <Documentation/networking/can.rst>. If you want CAN support you should say Y here and also to the specific driver for your controller(s) below. |