On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:36:53PM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 02:07:21PM -0700, Andrey Yurovsky wrote: > > I'm troubleshooting issues with an Atmel AT86RF212 radio on mainline > > (3.17-rc5 at this time) and was wondering about forcing an active scan > > via the "iz scan" command. This comes back as not supported so I > > wanted to understand why. > > > > It looks like ieee802154_scan_req() should be invoked in nl-mac.c in > > response to a netlink message, this will return -EOPNOTSUPP when > > ieee802154_mlme_ops(dev)->scan_req is NULL, and indeed that appears to > > be the case. I can't find anyone in the soft-MAC setting .scan_req in > > the MLME ops structure, is that correct? > > > > The only place I see it set is the fake full-MAC radio (fakehard.c) > > where it's implemented as fake_scan_req() which in turn calls > > ieee802154_nl_scan_confirm() to report the fake scan result. > > > > I then tried to find anything else calling > > ieee802154_nl_scan_confirm() and was unable to, is that right or am I > > missing something? > > > > Please forgive my ignorance but is scanning "broken" at this time? > > yep, I would say the mac802154, netlink interface is completely broken. > And didn't work ever at any mainline status. > but hey I still accept patches for bug fixes. :-) New features depends -> if it's useful to integrate it in the rework branch. I tried to figure out how the netlink interface works, I gave up when I saw the "extern struct nl_policy foo" in the netlink interface header. This is normally a uapi header, so I don't know why this is there. netlink is one piece which is completely different in the rework. Sorry, if you thought that the 802.15.4 branch is in any useful state. :-( - 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
