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authorPhoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>2014-02-17 11:34:14 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-02-17 16:42:39 -0500
commit4244db1b0b7bc9ab7b67d8c1c38de6cf15bc87a8 (patch)
treec729b4b8546421f0f17fd5e9bee0820e2335882d /net/mac802154
parent7dcbd22a97eb0689e6c583ad630ae0e7341e34c1 (diff)
downloadlinux-4244db1b0b7bc9ab7b67d8c1c38de6cf15bc87a8.tar.gz
ieee802154: add netlink APIs for smartMAC configuration
Introduce new netlink attributes for SET_PHY_ATTRS:
 * CSMA minimal backoff exponent
 * CSMA maximal backoff exponent
 * CSMA retry limit
 * frame retransmission limit

The CSMA attributes shall correspond to minBE, maxBE and maxCSMABackoffs of
802.15.4, respectively. The frame retransmission shall correspond to
maxFrameRetries of 802.15.4, unless given as -1: then the old behaviour
of the stack shall apply. For RF2xy, the old behaviour is to not do
channel sensing at all and simply send *right now*, which is not
intended behaviour for most applications and actually prohibited for
some channel/page combinations.

For all values except frame retransmission limit, the defaults of
802.15.4 apply. Frame retransmission limits are set to -1 to indicate
backward-compatible behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac802154')
-rw-r--r--net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c23
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c b/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c
index 4707f36546d3..b75bb01e5c6b 100644
--- a/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c
+++ b/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c
@@ -205,6 +205,27 @@ static int mac802154_set_cca_ed_level(struct wpan_phy *phy, s32 level)
 	return priv->ops->set_cca_ed_level(&priv->hw, level);
 }
 
+static int mac802154_set_csma_params(struct wpan_phy *phy, u8 min_be,
+				     u8 max_be, u8 retries)
+{
+	struct mac802154_priv *priv = wpan_phy_priv(phy);
+
+	if (!priv->ops->set_csma_params)
+		return -ENOTSUPP;
+
+	return priv->ops->set_csma_params(&priv->hw, min_be, max_be, retries);
+}
+
+static int mac802154_set_frame_retries(struct wpan_phy *phy, s8 retries)
+{
+	struct mac802154_priv *priv = wpan_phy_priv(phy);
+
+	if (!priv->ops->set_frame_retries)
+		return -ENOTSUPP;
+
+	return priv->ops->set_frame_retries(&priv->hw, retries);
+}
+
 struct ieee802154_dev *
 ieee802154_alloc_device(size_t priv_data_len, struct ieee802154_ops *ops)
 {
@@ -286,6 +307,8 @@ int ieee802154_register_device(struct ieee802154_dev *dev)
 	priv->phy->set_lbt = mac802154_set_lbt;
 	priv->phy->set_cca_mode = mac802154_set_cca_mode;
 	priv->phy->set_cca_ed_level = mac802154_set_cca_ed_level;
+	priv->phy->set_csma_params = mac802154_set_csma_params;
+	priv->phy->set_frame_retries = mac802154_set_frame_retries;
 
 	rc = wpan_phy_register(priv->phy);
 	if (rc < 0)