netdev - Re: [PATCH wpan-next v2 04/11] mac802154: Handle associating

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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2023 17:36:25 +0200
From: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
To: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
 Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>, linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "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 04/11] mac802154: Handle associating

Hello Miquel.

On 01.09.23 19:04, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Joining a PAN officially goes by associating with a coordinator. This
> coordinator may have been discovered thanks to the beacons it sent in
> the past. Add support to the MAC layer for these associations, which
> require:
> - Sending an association request
> - Receiving an association response
> 
> The association response contains the association status, eventually a
> reason if the association was unsuccessful, and finally a short address
> that we should use for intra-PAN communication from now on, if we
> required one (which is the default, and not yet configurable).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
> ---
>   include/net/cfg802154.h         |   1 +
>   include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h |   5 ++
>   net/ieee802154/core.c           |  14 ++++
>   net/mac802154/cfg.c             |  70 ++++++++++++++++++
>   net/mac802154/ieee802154_i.h    |  19 +++++
>   net/mac802154/main.c            |   2 +
>   net/mac802154/rx.c              |   9 +++
>   net/mac802154/scan.c            | 127 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   8 files changed, 247 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/cfg802154.h b/include/net/cfg802154.h
> index 1c22cef77425..df1f6c905c2d 100644
> --- a/include/net/cfg802154.h
> +++ b/include/net/cfg802154.h
> @@ -503,6 +503,7 @@ struct wpan_dev {
>   	struct mutex association_lock;
>   	struct ieee802154_pan_device *parent;
>   	struct list_head children;
> +	unsigned int association_generation;

Could you explain what you are suing this for? I see it icreases in 
free_peer_structure as weel as in associate. But I am not clear what 
this is used for.

regards
Stefan Schmidt