Hi, On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 11:40 AM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:37:23 -0400: > > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 11:51 AM Miquel Raynal > > <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Coordinators may have to handle association requests from peers which > > > want to join the PAN. The logic involves: > > > - Acknowledging the request (done by hardware) > > > - If requested, a random short address that is free on this PAN should > > > be chosen for the device. > > > - Sending an association response with the short address allocated for > > > the peer and expecting it to be ack'ed. > > > > > > If anything fails during this procedure, the peer is considered not > > > associated. > > > > I thought a coordinator can also reject requests for _any_ reason and > > it's very user specific whatever that reason is. > > Absolutely. > > > If we have such a case (that it is very user specific what to do > > exactly) this should be able to be controlled by the user space to > > have there a logic to tell the kernel to accept or reject the > > association. > > Agreed (not implemented yet, though). > > > However, I am fine with this solution, but I think we might want to > > change this behaviour in the future so that an application in the user > > space has the logic to tell the kernel to accept or reject an > > association. That would make sense? > > Definitely, yes. ok, thanks to have some agreement here for the future. - Alex
