Re: [PATCH wpan-next v2 0/6] IEEE 802.15.4 passive scan support

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Hi,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 7:04 PM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We now have the infrastructure to report beacons/PANs, we also have the
> capability to transmit MLME commands synchronously. It is time to use
> these to implement a proper scan implementation.
>
> There are a few side-changes which are necessary for the soft MAC scan
> implementation to compile/work, but nothing big. The two main changes
> are:
> * The introduction of a user API for managing scans.
> * The soft MAC implementation of a scan.
>
> In all the past, current and future submissions, David and Romuald from
> Qorvo are credited in various ways (main author, co-author,
> suggested-by) depending of the amount of rework that was involved on
> each patch, reflecting as much as possible the open-source guidelines we
> follow in the kernel. All this effort is made possible thanks to Qorvo
> Inc which is pushing towards a featureful upstream WPAN support.
>
> Example of output:
>
>         # iwpan monitor
>         coord1 (phy #1): scan started
>         coord1 (phy #1): beacon received: PAN 0xabcd, addr 0xb2bcc36ac5570abe
>         coord1 (phy #1): scan finished
>         coord1 (phy #1): scan started
>         coord1 (phy #1): scan aborted
>

Acked-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, good work.

- Alex




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