tristate "CAN bus subsystem support"
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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.