Hello Miquel.
On 01.09.23 19:04, Miquel Raynal wrote:
Introduce structures to describe peer devices in a PAN as well as a few
related helpers. We basically care about:
- Our unique parent after associating with a coordinator.
- Peer devices, children, which successfully associated with us.
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Hello Miquel.
On 01.09.23 19:05, Miquel Raynal wrote:
Upon request, we must be able to provide to the user the list of
associations currently in place. Let's add a new netlink command and
attribute for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal
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include/net/nl802154.h| 18 ++-
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Hello Miquel.
On 01.09.23 19:04, Miquel Raynal wrote:
Joining a PAN officially goes by associating with a coordinator. This
coordinator may have been discovered thanks to the beacons it sent in
the past. Add support to the MAC layer for these associations, which
require:
- Sending an association
Hello Miquel
On 01.09.23 19:04, Miquel Raynal 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
