Free and open-source software portal SocketCAN is a set of open source CAN drivers and a networking stack contributed by Volkswagen Research to the Linux kernel. SocketCAN was formerly known as Low Level CAN Framework (LLCF). Typical CAN communication layers. With SocketCAN (left) or conventional (right). Traditional CAN drivers for Linux are based on the model of character devices. Typically they
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