Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242: Driver for ADF7242 MAC IEEE802154

[Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 02:34:29PM +0100, Michael Hennerich wrote:
...
> >Stefan, maybe you testing with the ATUSB firmware which going _not_
> >into RX_AACK_ON. This was one of my lastest changes according to the
> >ATUSB firmware. Please check that, otherwise the atusb doesn't send
> >ack frames if ackrequest bit is set after receiving.
> 
> I was wondering where can I buy the ATUSB?
> On the pulster page I can't find it.
> 

They are all out of stock, everywhere. I cc Werner maybe he will bring
back the atusb again. He do his stuff all open source and a possible
solution would be a Kickstarter project.

Another option would be:

 - Produce your own atusb
 - I know that "Christopher Friedt" produced some, maybe he will give/sell
   some. :-) I cc'ed him here.
 - use the experimental firmware [1] on RZUSBStick [0] support. Basics
   functionality only and not stable such atusb. I ported the firmware
   to this stick, it can be used by atusb driver. The transceiver is a
   different -> at86rf230... and this transceiver we also doesn't
   support by the at86rf230 because it's too different and a huge
   errata.

> In general why is the framework not requesting ACKs on all non broadcast
> DATA frames?
> 
> There is an option if turned on - it'll also request ACks on broadcasts...

I suppose you use the af802154 socket family. I didn't touched the code
and this socket family is full of bugs. We need a replacement for that.

The socket code which I was working is AF_PACKET.

In case of AF_PACKET:

 dgram sockets: extended address and intra_pan communciaton only. The
                AF_PACKET UAPI doesn't offer more address information.
		We do a mapping to this currently, other option would be
		to disable DGRAM on AF_PACKET. It's not possible to send
		broadcast frames with that.
		If you need that, something similar like af802154 should
		be available, but it's currently broken.

 raw sockets:   You can build the mac frame inside userspace with
                complete control fc and address settings. We don't check
		this frame if it's valid. This is not a bug.


and 6LoWPAN:

6LoWPAN doesn't do that, the check should be at [2]. If it's currently
broken at your side?

- Alex

[0] http://www.atmel.com/tools/RZUSBSTICK.aspx
[1] http://alex.my-webspace.org/firmwares/rzusb.bin
    Note: This is temprorary website, I know wpan.cakelab.org is down
    currently and I working already to a DNS solution to redirect
    wpan.cakelab.org -> /alex.my-webspace.org . At the moment it looks
    like the provide has bugs inside his DNS web-frontend configuration
    page. ;-)
[2] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c#L220