netdev - Re: [PATCH bluetooth-next] netdevice: add ieee802154_ptr to net

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Date:	Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:20:24 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alex.aring@...il.com
Cc:	linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bluetooth-next] netdevice: add ieee802154_ptr to
 net_device

From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>
Date: Sun,  2 Nov 2014 06:44:54 +0100

> This patch adds an ieee802154_ptr to the net_device structure.
> Furthermore the 802.15.4 subsystem will introduce a nl802154 framework
> which is similar like the nl80211 framework and a wpan_dev structure.
> The wpan_dev structure will hold additional net_device attributes like
> address options which are 802.15.4 specific. In the upcoming nl802154
> implementation we will introduce a NL802154_FLAG_NEED_WPAN_DEV like
> NL80211_FLAG_NEED_WDEV. For this flag an ieee802154_ptr in net_device is
> needed. Additional we can access the wpan_dev attributes in upper layers
> like IEEE 802.15.4 6LoWPAN easily. Current solution is a complicated
> callback interface and getting these values over subif data structure
> in mac802154.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>

No objections, and you can merge this via the bluetooth tree:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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