From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com ([209.85.212.181]:56666 "EHLO mail-wi0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750752AbaIUKHF (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2014 06:07:05 -0400 Received: by mail-wi0-f181.google.com with SMTP id z2so1472080wiv.2 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 03:07:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:06:58 +0200 From: Alexander Aring Subject: Re: Promiscuous patches Message-ID: <20140921100656.GA30821@omega> References: <20140918160458.GB9262@omega> <541B0E3B.9000201@xsilon.com> <20140918170724.GA11661@omega> <20140918175405.GC11661@omega> <20140918175617.GA12638@omega> <541B24CA.1090404@xsilon.com> <20140918185348.GA12931@omega> <20140918203445.GA14182@omega> <20140919101108.GC19085@omega> <541D26C5.5010404@xsilon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <541D26C5.5010404@xsilon.com> Sender: linux-wpan-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Martin Townsend Cc: linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org Hi Martin, On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 08:03:33AM +0100, Martin Townsend wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I noticed the 802.15.4 spec mentions that when promiscuous mode is set it > zeroes out the source and destination addressing mode of received packets > which seems to suggest that the packet should not be handled by the stack > also implying this is a monitor mode. Carry on with your design which I've > had a chance to look through and it looks great. I can implement whatever I > need in a separate debug branch. > this design is like mac80211 and removed all unnecessary things which we don't need, just grab some ideas from. I feeling happy that you like that, thanks. But note this isn't finished also names like ieee802154_hdr_foo, of course I will not name it _foo, just for integration process. But there are also some other issues/todos and need to find solutions. - Alex