netdev - Re: [PATCH wpan-next 1/5] mac80254: Provide real PAN coordinator info in beacons

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Message-Id: <20231220073241.411025-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 08:32:41 +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 1/5] mac80254: Provide real PAN coordinator info in beacons

On Tue, 2023-11-28 at 11:16:51 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Sending a beacon is a way to advertise a PAN, but also ourselves as
> coordinator in the PAN. There is only one PAN coordinator in a PAN, this
> is the device without parent (not associated itself to an "upper"
> coordinator). Instead of blindly saying that we are the PAN coordinator,
> let's actually use our internal information to fill this field.
> 
> 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