mac802154: Fixes issues with extended address. 1) Extended address should be read-only. 2) Extended address should be placed in frame in "reverse-canonical" order.
The extended address is a read-only attribute and thus an attempt to write the extended address should be denied. Instead, the extended address should really be either set by the PHY/radio itself, or provided at board bring-up time to the radio layer. The MAC layer now pulls in the extended address from the radio any time the MAC is reset.
The extended address is also supposed to be sent in the frame in reverse-canonical order. This is very confusing in the standard and it wasn't until I realized it was backwards in Wireshark that I researched this further. Searching online I find documents from the committee for suggestions/feedback on the future standard. It isn't in the 2015 standard but a newer version of the standard will presumably clarify this. It says that the extended address should be written in reverse-canonical form, meaning the OUI comes last, not first inside the frame.
Approved-by: Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org>
Mac attributes
* wirelesss/ieee802154/mac802154: Makes comment more clear that it's related to an outbound frame, not an incoming frame.
* wireless/ieee802154: Adds support for getting/setting macMaxFrameRetries via IOCTL
* wireless/.ieee802154/mac802154: Add get support for rxonidle attribute
Approved-by: Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org>
Pass header-payload offset to application for use when the MAC layer is in promiscuous mode
* mac802154_device: When in promiscuous mode, the char driver sends the entire frame, including the MAC header. This change adds an offset field indicating the header-payload boundary. It is set to 0 when not in promiscuous mode as the header is not passed to the application
* mac802154: Adds support for getting promiscuous mode state
Approved-by: Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org>
ieee802154: Simplifies notify() and rxframe() calls to a single notify() call. dataind's and all other "notifs" are now "primitives" which aligns with standard terminology
* mac802154: Adds missing breaks from case statement
* sixlowpan: Fixes bad logic where ACK is not requested if address is not a broadcast
* ieee802154: Simplification of "notifs" and "datainds" to generic primitives passed via a single notify call to the layer above the MAC
* Directories.mk should reference CONFIG_WIRELESS instead of CONFIG_DRIVERS_WIRELESS
* xbee_netdev: Network must be locked when calling sixlowpan_input
* sixlowpan: Reassembly buffer can't be freed if provided by radio driver
* sixlowpan: Don't free IOB if there is an error processing it as the MAC will try to pass it along to another receiver
* ieee802154: Adds basic logging to ieee802154_primitive.c
* Minor fixes after rebase
* xbee: Adds AT query timeout to retry if XBee doesn't respond to request
* same70-xplained: Adds Xbee support. Makes mikroBus slot Kconfig 'choice'
* mac802154: Removes unused function declaration
* drivers/mrf24j40: Fixes compilation error using . operator rather than -> operator
* mac802154_device: Changes a few mac802154_primtive_free's to ieee802154_primitive_free() and changes notif to primitive in a couple places.
* mac802154: Adds promiscous mode logic to bypass parsing of incoming frames. MAC char device also checks for promiscous mode and passes whole frames including header and FCS to the application if promiscous mode is enabled.
* sixlowpan: Fixes logic to correctly check if packet is large enough to include header. This would cause packets to be considered too small when they are sufficiently sized.
* sixlowpan: Fixes forwarding logic to use forwarding device rather than received device to look up destination link layer address
* net/ipforward: Fixes typo that caused build error when IP forwarding was enabled with CONFIG_NET_ICMPv6_NEIGHBOR enabled as well.
* configs/same70-xplained: Simple spelling fix
Approved-by: Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org>
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