On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:56:18PM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:56:07AM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:45:51AM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote: > > > Hi Martin, > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 02:14:01PM +0100, Martin Townsend wrote: > > > > Hi Alex, > > > > > > > > You sent me a patch not long ago to allow automatic setting of promiscous mode. I seem to have lost this patch, could you resend as I want to look into it. > > > > > > > > > > some of my old branch [0]. > > > > > > btw. > > > > > > I added to the rework now the promiscous mode and decided to not enable > > > this mode while setting promiscous mode flag. > > > > > > It's now setted by doing a ifup of a monitor interface. See [1]. > > > > > > Maybe you will change it like this (it's better) but there are so many > > > issue to think about (Disable promiscous if netif on non MONITOR > > > interfaces etc...). > > > > > > And also you can't have NODE and MONITOR running because it's phy mac > > > sublayer attribute. > > > > > > > I mean with mac sublayer here, some timing critical mac operations/algorithmn > > done by phy's. Like AACK/ARET, CSMA, etc handling. I don't beleieve that we can > > ever handle these timing ciriticals inside mac802154. > > > > So we have multiple interfaces but one phy. :-) > > > > One phy means we need to check the constraints that these parameters are > > always the same on each interface. > > > > On phy pib handling we don't need that. This is no MAC algorithmn, it's > > only physical changes to the phy rf handling and for the rework we don't > > have the multiple phy handling anymore. > > > > grml s/promiscous/promiscuous everywhere. I need to remember that. > Sorry. > > I will fix it on the branch. > Seems to be a common error, "grep -r promiscous .": ./drivers/net/ethernet/wiznet/w5100.c:#define S0_MR_MACRAW 0x04 /* MAC RAW mode (promiscous) */ ./drivers/net/ethernet/wiznet/w5300.c:#define S0_MR_MACRAW 0x0004 /* MAC RAW mode (promiscous) */ ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt.h: /* Non-data in promiscous mode */ - Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
