There are more functions and operations which must be used or implemented in each IEEE 802.15.4 device driver, but are not mentioned in the Device drivers API section of Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt. Therefore, I want to fulfill the missed part into the documentation with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Jian-Hong Pan <[email protected]> --- Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt index 057e9fdbfac9..e74d8e1da0e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt @@ -97,6 +97,46 @@ The include/net/mac802154.h defines following functions: - void ieee802154_unregister_hw(struct ieee802154_hw *hw): freeing registered PHY + - void ieee802154_rx_irqsafe(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, + u8 lqi): + telling 802.15.4 module there is a new received frame in the skb with + the RF Link Quality Indicator (LQI) from the hardware device + + - void ieee802154_xmit_complete(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, + bool ifs_handling): + telling 802.15.4 module the frame in the skb is or going to be + transmitted through the hardware device + +The device driver must implement the following callbacks in the IEEE 802.15.4 +operations structure at least: +struct ieee802154_ops { + ... + int (*start)(struct ieee802154_hw *hw); + void (*stop)(struct ieee802154_hw *hw); + ... + int (*xmit_async)(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb); + int (*ed)(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, u8 *level); + int (*set_channel)(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, u8 page, u8 channel); + ... +}; + + - int start(struct ieee802154_hw *hw): + handler that 802.15.4 module calls for the hardware device initialization. + + - void stop(struct ieee802154_hw *hw): + handler that 802.15.4 module calls for the hardware device cleanup. + + - int xmit_async(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb): + handler that 802.15.4 module calls for each frame in the skb going to be + transmitted through the hardware device. + + - int ed(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, u8 *level): + handler that 802.15.4 module calls for Energy Detection from the hardware + device. + + - int set_channel(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, u8 page, u8 channel): + set radio for listening on specific channel of the hardware device. + Moreover IEEE 802.15.4 device operations structure should be filled. Fake drivers -- 2.15.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
