netdev - Re: [PATCH wpan-next v2 0/2] ieee802154: Beaconing support

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Message-ID: <CAK-6q+hoquVswZTm+juLasQzUJpGdO+aQ7Q3PCRRwYagge5dTw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:48:02 -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 S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH wpan-next v2 0/2] ieee802154: Beaconing support

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 8:45 PM Alexander Aring <aahringo@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 5:31 AM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote:
> >
> > Scanning being now supported, we can eg. play with hwsim to verify
> > everything works as soon as this series including beaconing support gets
> > merged.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Miquèl
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > * Clearly state in the commit log llsec is not supported yet.
> > * Do not use mlme transmission helpers because we don't really need to
> >   stop the queue when sending a beacon, as we don't expect any feedback
> >   from the PHY nor from the peers. However, we don't want to go through
> >   the whole net stack either, so we bypass it calling the subif helper
> >   directly.
> >

moment, we use the mlme helpers to stop tx but we use the
ieee802154_subif_start_xmit() because of the possibility to invoke
current 802.15.4 hooks like llsec? That's how I understand it.

- Alex