can: remove CAN FD compatibility for CAN 2.0 sockets

In commit e2d265d3b587 (canfd: add support for CAN FD in CAN_RAW sockets)
CAN FD frames with a payload length up to 8 byte are passed to legacy
sockets where the CAN FD support was not enabled by the application.

After some discussions with developers at a fair this well meant feature
leads to confusion as no clean switch for CAN / CAN FD is provided to the
application programmer. Additionally a compatibility like this for legacy
CAN_RAW sockets requires some compatibility handling for the sending, e.g.
make CAN2.0 frames a CAN FD frame with BRS at transmission time (?!?).

This will become a mess when people start to develop applications with
real CAN FD hardware. This patch reverts the bad compatibility code
together with the documentation describing the removed feature.

Acked-by: Stephane Grosjean <s.grosjean@peak-system.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/can.txt b/Documentation/networking/can.txt
index f3089d4..0cbe6ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/can.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/can.txt
@@ -554,12 +554,6 @@ solution for a couple of reasons:
   not specified in the struct can_frame and therefore it is only valid in
   CANFD_MTU sized CAN FD frames.
 
-  As long as the payload length is <=8 the received CAN frames from CAN FD
-  capable CAN devices can be received and read by legacy sockets too. When
-  user-generated CAN FD frames have a payload length <=8 these can be send
-  by legacy CAN network interfaces too. Sending CAN FD frames with payload
-  length > 8 to a legacy CAN network interface returns an -EMSGSIZE error.
-
   Implementation hint for new CAN applications:
 
   To build a CAN FD aware application use struct canfd_frame as basic CAN