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Commit 4244db1b authored by Phoebe Buckheister's avatar Phoebe Buckheister Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarPhoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 7dcbd22a
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