miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:07:58 +0200: > Hello, > > [I know we are in the middle of the merge window, I don't think it > matters on the wpan side, so as the wpan subsystem did not evolve > much since the previous merge window I figured I would not delay the > sending of this series given the fact that I should have send it at the > beginning of the summer...] Of course this is outdated, but the following still stands :) Cheers, Miquèl > Now that we can discover our peer coordinators or make ourselves > dynamically discoverable, we may use the information about surrounding > devices to create PANs dynamically. This involves of course: > * Requesting an association to a coordinator, waiting for the response > * Sending a disassociation notification to a coordinator > * Receiving an association request when we are coordinator, answering > the request (for now all devices are accepted up to a limit, to be > refined) > * Sending a disassociation notification to a child > * Users may request the list of associated devices (the parent and the > children). > > Here are a few example of userspace calls that can be made: > iwpan dev <dev> associate pan_id 2 coord $COORD > iwpan dev <dev> list_associations > iwpan dev <dev> disassociate ext_addr $COORD > > I used a small using hwsim to scan for a coordinator, associate with > it, look at the associations on both sides, disassociate from it and > check the associations again: > ./assoc-demo > *** Scan *** > PAN 0x0002 (on wpan1) > coordinator 0x060f3b35169a498f > page 0 > channel 13 > preamble code 0 > mean prf 0 > superframe spec. 0xcf11 > LQI ff > *** End of scan *** > Associating wpan1 with coord0 0x060f3b35169a498f... > Dumping coord0 assoc: > child : 0x0b6f / 0xba7633ae47ccfb21 > Dumping wpan1 assoc: > parent: 0xffff / 0x060f3b35169a498f > Disassociating from wpan1 > Dumping coord0 assoc: > Dumping wpan1 assoc: > > I could also successfully interact with a smaller device running Zephir, > using its command line interface to associate and then disassociate from > the Linux coordinator. > > Thanks! > Miquèl > > Changes in v3: > * Clarify a helper which compares if two devices seem to be identical by > adding two comments. This is a static function that is only used by > the PAN management core to operate or not an > association/disassociation request. In this helper, a new check is > introduced to be sure we compare fields which have been populated. > * Dropped the "association_generation" counter and all its uses along > the code. I tried to mimic some other counter but I agree it is not > super useful and could be dropped anyway. > * Dropped a faulty sequence number hardcoded to 10. This had no impact > because a few lines later the same entry was set to a valid value. > > Changes in v2: > * Drop the misleading IEEE802154_ADDR_LONG_BROADCAST definition and its > only use which was useless anyway. > * Clarified how devices are defined when the user requests to associate > with a coordinator: for now only the extended address of the > coordinator is relevant so this is the only address we care about. > * Drop a useless NULL check before a kfree() call. > * Add a check when allocating a child short address: it must be > different than ours. > * Rebased on top of v6.5. > > Miquel Raynal (11): > ieee802154: Let PAN IDs be reset > ieee802154: Internal PAN management > ieee802154: Add support for user association requests > mac802154: Handle associating > ieee802154: Add support for user disassociation requests > mac802154: Handle disassociations > mac802154: Handle association requests from peers > ieee802154: Add support for limiting the number of associated devices > mac802154: Follow the number of associated devices > mac802154: Handle disassociation notifications from peers > ieee802154: Give the user the association list > > include/net/cfg802154.h | 69 ++++++ > include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h | 60 +++++ > include/net/nl802154.h | 22 +- > net/ieee802154/Makefile | 2 +- > net/ieee802154/core.c | 24 ++ > net/ieee802154/nl802154.c | 223 +++++++++++++++++- > net/ieee802154/pan.c | 115 +++++++++ > net/ieee802154/rdev-ops.h | 30 +++ > net/ieee802154/trace.h | 38 +++ > net/mac802154/cfg.c | 170 ++++++++++++++ > net/mac802154/ieee802154_i.h | 27 +++ > net/mac802154/main.c | 2 + > net/mac802154/rx.c | 25 ++ > net/mac802154/scan.c | 397 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 14 files changed, 1191 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 net/ieee802154/pan.c >
