On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:06:06AM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote: > Hi, > > this patch series add support for setting lbt mode and dump phy parameters and > mac interface parameters. > > Each interface "could" have different mac parameters, because the mac sublayer > means mac algorithmn which are done by phy. These parameters need to be the same > on each interface. There are couple of mac sublayer parameters like ARET, CSMA, > promiscuous mode, etc... These parameters will be changed if an interface will > comming up, otherwise it's there but not running. Solution to run this device > with different parameter is first down all others interfaces and then up the interface > with the different parameters. (Difficult to explain maybe it's clear when you play a > little bit with that). > > PHY settings will directly set registers to the driver. There is no mac functionality. > Only physical changes in radio frequency handling. > > dump example for phy pib: > > root@DistroKit:~ iwpan phy > wpan_phy phy0 > supported channels: > page 0: 11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26 > current_page: 0 > current_channel: 26 > cca_mode: 1 > tx_power: 3 > > dump example for mac pib: > > phy#0 > Interface mon0 > ifindex 5 > wpan_dev 0x2 > extended_addr 0x0000000000000000 > short_addr 0xffff > pan_id 0xffff > type monitor > max_frame_retries 3 > max_be 5 > max_csma_backoffs 4 > min_be 3 > lbt 0 > Interface wpan0 > ifindex 2 > wpan_dev 0x1 > extended_addr 0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa > short_addr 0xffff > pan_id 0xabcd > type node > max_frame_retries 3 > max_be 5 > max_csma_backoffs 4 > min_be 3 > lbt 0 > ah command for this was "iwpan dev", like iw tool for wireless. - 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
