netdev - Re: [PATCH wpan-next v2 0/6] IEEE 802.15.4 passive scan support

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Message-ID: <CAK-6q+gnLOu2qfXSLcAb3YR7pHJXRS95rtcUF47D2hfHQ9gA-g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Jan 2023 20:17:28 -0500
From:   Alexander Aring <aahringo@...hat.com>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>,
        Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>,
        linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org,
        David Girault <david.girault@...vo.com>,
        Romuald Despres <romuald.despres@...vo.com>,
        Frederic Blain <frederic.blain@...vo.com>,
        Nicolas Schodet <nico@...fr.eu.org>,
        Guilhem Imberton <guilhem.imberton@...vo.com>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH wpan-next v2 0/6] IEEE 802.15.4 passive scan support

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 7:04 PM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We now have the infrastructure to report beacons/PANs, we also have the
> capability to transmit MLME commands synchronously. It is time to use
> these to implement a proper scan implementation.
>
> There are a few side-changes which are necessary for the soft MAC scan
> implementation to compile/work, but nothing big. The two main changes
> are:
> * The introduction of a user API for managing scans.
> * The soft MAC implementation of a scan.
>
> In all the past, current and future submissions, David and Romuald from
> Qorvo are credited in various ways (main author, co-author,
> suggested-by) depending of the amount of rework that was involved on
> each patch, reflecting as much as possible the open-source guidelines we
> follow in the kernel. All this effort is made possible thanks to Qorvo
> Inc which is pushing towards a featureful upstream WPAN support.
>
> Example of output:
>
>         # iwpan monitor
>         coord1 (phy #1): scan started
>         coord1 (phy #1): beacon received: PAN 0xabcd, addr 0xb2bcc36ac5570abe
>         coord1 (phy #1): scan finished
>         coord1 (phy #1): scan started
>         coord1 (phy #1): scan aborted
>

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

Thanks, good work.

- Alex