Linux IEEE 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN development
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From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
To: Alexander Aring <aar@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Xue Liu <liuxuenetmail@gmail.com>, linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Register two 802.15.4 devices/interfaces in one driver
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:12:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10193.1487347973@obiwan.sandelman.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7eae598a-c56e-2aac-c0f4-cef9b92dc23b@pengutronix.de>

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Alexander Aring <aar@pengutronix.de> wrote:
    > Yes, turn transceiver "quietly" (maybe some pr_info notice) into
    > promiscuous mode or (if supported) turn off address filtering only.
    > Needs some driver layer changed and subsystem changes to allow it.

    > And this all quietly, just make a pr_info notice for networking experts
    > why your interrupt load for the transceiver will be increased.

Yup. Clearly if you try to do things in software to compensate for lacks in
hardware, there is a cost.  That's fine as long as nobody is surprised.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-17 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-16  8:56 Register two 802.15.4 devices/interfaces in one driver Xue Liu
2017-02-16 14:36 ` Michael Richardson
2017-02-16 15:55   ` Johann Fischer
2017-02-17 11:05     ` Xue Liu
2017-03-01 17:14       ` Stefan Schmidt
2017-03-06 13:53         ` Xue Liu
2017-03-07 19:04           ` Stefan Schmidt
2017-02-16 18:41   ` Alexander Aring
2017-02-16 19:44     ` Michael Richardson
2017-02-17  7:26       ` Alexander Aring
2017-02-17 11:01         ` Xue Liu
2017-02-19  7:09           ` Alexander Aring
2017-02-17 16:12         ` Michael Richardson [this message]
2017-02-20  8:34           ` Alexander Aring

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