netdev - Re: [PATCH wpan-next v3 0/4] ieee802154: Improve durations handling

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Date:   Sun, 6 Feb 2022 16:58:48 -0500
From:   Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>,
        linux-wpan - ML <linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Xue Liu <liuxuenetmail@...il.com>,
        Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
        Harry Morris <harrymorris12@...il.com>,
        David Girault <david.girault@...vo.com>,
        Romuald Despres <romuald.despres@...vo.com>,
        Frederic Blain <frederic.blain@...vo.com>,
        Nicolas Schodet <nico@...fr.eu.org>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH wpan-next v3 0/4] ieee802154: Improve durations handling

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 1:06 PM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote:
>
> These patches try to enhance the support of the various delays by adding
> into the core the necessary logic to derive the actual symbol duration
> (and then the lifs/sifs durations) depending on the protocol used. The
> symbol duration type is also updated to fit smaller numbers.
>
> Having the symbol durations properly set is a mandatory step in order to
> use the scanning feature that will soon be introduced.
>
> Changes since v2:
> * Added the ca8210 driver fix.
> * Fully dropped my rework of the way channels are advertised by device
>   drivers. Adapted instead the main existing helper to derive durations
>   based on the page/channel couple.
>
> Miquel Raynal (4):
>   net: ieee802154: ca8210: Fix lifs/sifs periods
>   net: mac802154: Convert the symbol duration into nanoseconds
>   net: mac802154: Set durations automatically
>   net: ieee802154: Drop duration settings when the core does it already
>

Acked-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@...hat.com>

Thanks Stefan. I agree "net: ieee802154: ca8210: Fix lifs/sifs
periods" should go into "wpan".

- Alex