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authorAndre Hartmann <aha_1980@gmx.de>2017-01-14 22:33:14 +0100
committerAndré Hartmann <aha_1980@gmx.de>2017-01-21 10:55:41 +0000
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TinyCAN: Add a note about Linux access rights
Change-Id: I11d01bc526e72a2849b80d72ab3e2626ab69d5da Reviewed-by: Alex Blasche <alexander.blasche@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com> Reviewed-by: Denis Shienkov <denis.shienkov@gmail.com>
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The TinyCAN plugin encapsulates the low-level API to work with the
\l{http://www.mhs-elektronik.de/}{MHS Elektronik} CAN adapters.
+ \note The TinyCAN adapters use virtual serial ports. To communicate with
+ TinyCAN adapters in Linux, the user must have appropriate access rights.
+ Usually these rights are given to all users in the group "dialout".
+
\section1 Creating CAN Bus Devices
At first it is necessary to check that QCanBus provides the desired plugin: