[PATCH v2 net-next 03/12] 6lowpan: always enable link-layer acknowledgments
From: Tony Cheneau <hidden>
Date: 2013-03-26 03:59:23
Subsystem:
ieee 802.15.4 subsystem, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Alexander Aring, Stefan Schmidt, Miquel Raynal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
This feature is especially important when using fragmentation, because the reassembly mechanism cannot recover from the loss of a fragment. Note that some hardware ignore this flag and not will not transmit acknowledgments even if this is set. Signed-off-by: Tony Cheneau <redacted> --- net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
index 9f53904..e7f61de 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c@@ -584,6 +584,10 @@ static int lowpan_header_create(struct sk_buff *skb, mac_cb(skb)->flags = IEEE802154_FC_TYPE_DATA; + /* request acknowledgment when possible */ + if (!lowpan_is_addr_broadcast(daddr)) + mac_cb(skb)->flags |= MAC_CB_FLAG_ACKREQ; + return dev_hard_header(skb, lowpan_dev_info(dev)->real_dev, type, (void *)&da, (void *)&sa, skb->len); }
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