Hi, this patch series contains a RFC for changing the max_frame_retries behaviour. The current behaviour is that we allow a range from -1 until 7 (802.15.4 standard describes a range from 0 until 7 only). Nevertheless for historical reason we have the "-1" value, which describes no aret handling. The point is when the ack request bit is set inside the mac header the transceiver need to handle the ack somehow, this is mostly the aret mode which is done by hardware. Instead to having this as mac setting which doesn't allow a change during interface up, we simple do this handling per frame indicated by the ack request bit. Instead of max_frame_retries "-1" value which could be useful for making a default ack request bit handling if no information is given if it should be set or not, we have now the ack request default entry inside the mib. This could be useful for the 6LoWPAN stack which have this as default behaviour for data frames. - Alex Alexander Aring (4): mac802154: cfg: remove test and set checks mac802154: change frame_retries behaviour at86rf230: use STATE_TX_ARET mode only ieee802154: add ack request default handling drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c | 52 ++++++++++---------------------------- include/net/cfg802154.h | 5 ++++ include/net/nl802154.h | 4 +++ net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c | 2 +- net/ieee802154/nl802154.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/ieee802154/rdev-ops.h | 13 ++++++++++ net/ieee802154/trace.h | 19 ++++++++++++++ net/mac802154/cfg.c | 27 ++++++++------------ net/mac802154/iface.c | 3 +-- net/mac802154/main.c | 9 +++---- 10 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-) -- 2.5.0 -- 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
