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From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
To: Martin Townsend <martin.townsend@xsilon.com>
Cc: linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Promiscuous patches
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:06:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140921100656.GA30821@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541D26C5.5010404@xsilon.com>

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

      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-21 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2014-09-14 23:45 ` Promiscuous patches Alexander Aring
2014-09-14 23:56   ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-15 11:56     ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-15 12:01       ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18  8:57   ` Martin Townsend
2014-09-18  9:41     ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 10:04       ` Martin Townsend
2014-09-18 10:43         ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 12:00           ` Martin Townsend
2014-09-18 12:21             ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 12:30               ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 12:44                 ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 13:25                   ` Martin Townsend
2014-09-18 13:34                     ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 13:42                       ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 14:36                         ` Martin Townsend
2014-09-18 16:05                           ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 16:54                             ` Martin Townsend
2014-09-18 17:07                               ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 17:54                                 ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 17:56                                   ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 18:30                                     ` Martin Townsend
2014-09-18 18:53                                       ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18 20:34                                         ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-19 10:11                                           ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-20  7:03                                             ` Martin Townsend
2014-09-21 10:06                                               ` Alexander Aring [this message]

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