linux-toradex.git/net/ieee802154/header_ops.c, branch v3.16-rc5 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules ieee802154: add definitions for link-layer security and header functions 2014-05-15T19:51:42+00:00 Phoebe Buckheister phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de 2014-05-14T15:43:06+00:00 c3a6114f31600b94ee10ebf62e4d493b401ade87 When dealing with 802.15.4, one often has to know the maximum payload size for a given packet. This depends on many factors, one of which is whether or not a security header is present in the frame. These definitions and functions provide an easy way for any upper layer to calculate the maximum payload size for a packet. The first obvious user for this is 6lowpan, which duplicates this calculation and gets it partially wrong because it ignores security headers. Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
When dealing with 802.15.4, one often has to know the maximum payload
size for a given packet. This depends on many factors, one of which is
whether or not a security header is present in the frame. These
definitions and functions provide an easy way for any upper layer to
calculate the maximum payload size for a packet. The first obvious user
for this is 6lowpan, which duplicates this calculation and gets it
partially wrong because it ignores security headers.

Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ieee802154: add header structs with endiannes and operations 2014-03-15T02:15:26+00:00 Phoebe Buckheister phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de 2014-03-14T20:24:00+00:00 94b4f6c21cf54029377a0645675a9d81b6cf890d This patch provides a set of structures to represent 802.15.4 MAC headers, and a set of operations to push/pull/peek these structs from skbs. We cannot simply pointer-cast the skb MAC header pointer to these structs, because 802.15.4 headers are wildly variable - depending on the first three bytes, virtually all other fields of the header may be present or not, and be present with different lengths. The new header creation/parsing routines also support 802.15.4 security headers, which are currently not supported by the mac802154 implementation of the protocol. Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
This patch provides a set of structures to represent 802.15.4 MAC
headers, and a set of operations to push/pull/peek these structs from
skbs. We cannot simply pointer-cast the skb MAC header pointer to these
structs, because 802.15.4 headers are wildly variable - depending on the
first three bytes, virtually all other fields of the header may be
present or not, and be present with different lengths.

The new header creation/parsing routines also support 802.15.4 security
headers, which are currently not supported by the mac802154
implementation of the protocol.

Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>