Hello Miquel.
On 03.01.23 17:56, Miquel Raynal 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
These patches have been applied to the wpan-next tree and will be
part of the next pull request to net-next. Thanks!
Before I would add them to a pull request to net-next I would like to
have an updated patchset for iwpan to reflect these scan changes. We
would need something to verify the kernel changes and try to coordinate
a new iwpan release with this functionality with the major kernel
release bringing the feature.
Thanks again for your work.
regards
Stefan Schmidt
