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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
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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/ieee802154/nl_policy.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ieee802154/nl_policy.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl_policy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl_policy.c
index 55b5616295ff..fd7be5e45cef 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl_policy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl_policy.c
@@ -57,5 +57,10 @@ const struct nla_policy ieee802154_policy[IEEE802154_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
[IEEE802154_ATTR_LBT_ENABLED] = { .type = NLA_U8, },
[IEEE802154_ATTR_CCA_MODE] = { .type = NLA_U8, },
[IEEE802154_ATTR_CCA_ED_LEVEL] = { .type = NLA_S32, },
+ [IEEE802154_ATTR_CSMA_RETRIES] = { .type = NLA_U8, },
+ [IEEE802154_ATTR_CSMA_MIN_BE] = { .type = NLA_U8, },
+ [IEEE802154_ATTR_CSMA_MAX_BE] = { .type = NLA_U8, },
+
+ [IEEE802154_ATTR_FRAME_RETRIES] = { .type = NLA_S8, },
};