netdev - Re: [PATCH wpan-next 0/2] ieee802154: Handle imited devices

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Message-ID: <CAK-6q+gzwOFbpN4JfYdfUzmVfeF+YzNwamkEaF-gYeMY8bzNww@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:56:57 -0400
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 0/2] ieee802154: Handle imited devices

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 7:07 AM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote:
>
> As rightly pointed out by Alexander a few months ago, ca8210 devices
> will not support sending frames which are not pure datagrams (hardMAC
> wired to the softMAC layer). In order to not confuse users and clarify
> that scanning and beaconing is not supported on these devices, let's add
> a flag to prevent them to be used with the new APIs.
>

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

I appreciate that you care about driver specific quirks which need to
be done here. The users of this driver are getting aware now there is
a lack of support here.

Thanks.

- Alex