mac802154: change frame_retries behaviour
authorAlexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:15:56 +0000 (21:15 +0200)
committerMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:43:06 +0000 (20:43 +0200)
commit89c7d788f89d58136a2e5596796c298942ee32d6
tree931c60095f4540cdc5ab2a66259d5aabef8a8b7e
parent91f02b3dd8311b48c021e8667a84dfc2d6445a03
mac802154: change frame_retries behaviour

This patch changes the default minimum value of frame_retries to 0 and
changes the frame_retries default value to 3 which is also 802.15.4
default.

We don't use the frame_retries "-1" value as indicator for no-aret mode
anymore, instead we checking on the ack request bit inside the 802.15.4
frame control field. This allows a acknowledge handling per frame. This
checking is done by transceiver or inside xmit callback of driver layer.

If a transceiver doesn't support ARET handling the transmit
functionality ignores ack frames then, which isn't well but should not
effect anything of current functionality.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
net/mac802154/iface.c
net/mac802154/main.c