Commit 26bca9fe authored by Robert P. J. Day's avatar Robert P. J. Day Committed by Marc Kleine-Budde

can: Kconfig: correct history of the CAN protocol

Current history of CAN protocol is wrong, fix it in the Kconfig file.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Acked-by: default avatarOliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
parent 64d6ce8f
......@@ -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.
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