netdev - Re: [PATCH wpan-next 2/5] mac802154: Use the PAN coordinator parameter when stamping packets

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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 08:32:36 +0100
From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
	Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>,
	Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>,
	linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org
Cc: 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 2/5] mac802154: Use the PAN coordinator parameter when stamping packets

On Tue, 2023-11-28 at 11:16:52 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> ACKs come with the source and destination address empty, this has been
> clarified already. But there is something else: if the destination
> address is empty but the source address is valid, it may be a way to
> reach the PAN coordinator. Either the device receiving this frame is the
> PAN coordinator itself and should process what it just received
> (PACKET_HOST) or it is not and may, if supported, relay the packet as it
> is targeted to another device in the network.
> 
> Right now we do not support relaying so the packet should be dropped in
> the first place, but the stamping looks more accurate this way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
> Acked-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
> Acked-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@...hat.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wpan/wpan-next.git master.

Miquel