Hello Miquel.
On 04.01.23 13:20, Miquel Raynal wrote:
Hi Stefan,
stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on Tue, 3 Jan 2023 20:43:02 +0100:
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.
So far I did not made a single change for the scan, but a common
changeset for scan+beaconing (which I am about to send), should I split
it or should we assume we could introduce scanning and beaconing in the
same kernel release?
From my side I do not mind to introduce scanning and beaconing in the
same release. I just want to make you aware that scanning would slip if
beaconing slips and we have no support in iwpan to test and release
together.
If you have the beaconing patchset ready, let's start with it and if it
turns out it will not be ready for the next release (let's hope it will)
you can think again if you want to have the scan part split of to
release that earlier.
regards
Stefan Schmidt
