[PATCH wpan-next v3 00/11] ieee802154: Associations between devices

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

[I know we are in the middle of the merge window, I don't think it
matters on the wpan side, so as the wpan subsystem did not evolve
much since the previous merge window I figured I would not delay the
sending of this series given the fact that I should have send it at the
beginning of the summer...]

Now that we can discover our peer coordinators or make ourselves
dynamically discoverable, we may use the information about surrounding
devices to create PANs dynamically. This involves of course:
* Requesting an association to a coordinator, waiting for the response
* Sending a disassociation notification to a coordinator
* Receiving an association request when we are coordinator, answering
  the request (for now all devices are accepted up to a limit, to be
  refined)
* Sending a disassociation notification to a child
* Users may request the list of associated devices (the parent and the
  children).

Here are a few example of userspace calls that can be made:
iwpan dev <dev> associate pan_id 2 coord $COORD
iwpan dev <dev> list_associations
iwpan dev <dev> disassociate ext_addr $COORD

I used a small using hwsim to scan for a coordinator, associate with
it, look at the associations on both sides, disassociate from it and
check the associations again:
./assoc-demo
*** Scan ***
PAN 0x0002 (on wpan1)
	coordinator 0x060f3b35169a498f
	page 0
	channel 13
	preamble code 0
	mean prf 0
	superframe spec. 0xcf11
	LQI ff
*** End of scan ***
Associating wpan1 with coord0 0x060f3b35169a498f...
Dumping coord0 assoc:
child : 0x0b6f / 0xba7633ae47ccfb21
Dumping wpan1 assoc:
parent: 0xffff / 0x060f3b35169a498f
Disassociating from wpan1
Dumping coord0 assoc:
Dumping wpan1 assoc:

I could also successfully interact with a smaller device running Zephir,
using its command line interface to associate and then disassociate from
the Linux coordinator.

Thanks!
Miquèl

Changes in v3:
* Clarify a helper which compares if two devices seem to be identical by
  adding two comments. This is a static function that is only used by
  the PAN management core to operate or not an
  association/disassociation request. In this helper, a new check is
  introduced to be sure we compare fields which have been populated.
* Dropped the "association_generation" counter and all its uses along
  the code. I tried to mimic some other counter but I agree it is not
  super useful and could be dropped anyway.
* Dropped a faulty sequence number hardcoded to 10. This had no impact
  because a few lines later the same entry was set to a valid value.

Changes in v2:
* Drop the misleading IEEE802154_ADDR_LONG_BROADCAST definition and its
  only use which was useless anyway.
* Clarified how devices are defined when the user requests to associate
  with a coordinator: for now only the extended address of the
  coordinator is relevant so this is the only address we care about.
* Drop a useless NULL check before a kfree() call.
* Add a check when allocating a child short address: it must be
  different than ours.
* Rebased on top of v6.5.

Miquel Raynal (11):
  ieee802154: Let PAN IDs be reset
  ieee802154: Internal PAN management
  ieee802154: Add support for user association requests
  mac802154: Handle associating
  ieee802154: Add support for user disassociation requests
  mac802154: Handle disassociations
  mac802154: Handle association requests from peers
  ieee802154: Add support for limiting the number of associated devices
  mac802154: Follow the number of associated devices
  mac802154: Handle disassociation notifications from peers
  ieee802154: Give the user the association list

 include/net/cfg802154.h         |  69 ++++++
 include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h |  60 +++++
 include/net/nl802154.h          |  22 +-
 net/ieee802154/Makefile         |   2 +-
 net/ieee802154/core.c           |  24 ++
 net/ieee802154/nl802154.c       | 223 +++++++++++++++++-
 net/ieee802154/pan.c            | 115 +++++++++
 net/ieee802154/rdev-ops.h       |  30 +++
 net/ieee802154/trace.h          |  38 +++
 net/mac802154/cfg.c             | 170 ++++++++++++++
 net/mac802154/ieee802154_i.h    |  27 +++
 net/mac802154/main.c            |   2 +
 net/mac802154/rx.c              |  25 ++
 net/mac802154/scan.c            | 397 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 14 files changed, 1191 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 net/ieee802154/pan.c

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