Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] net: maclorawan: Implement maclorawan class module
From: Jian-Hong Pan <hidden>
Date: 2018-12-18 14:27:08
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Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 11:18:59AM CET, starnight@g.ncu.edu.tw wrote:quoted
LoRaWAN defined by LoRa Alliance(TM) is the MAC layer over LoRa devices. This patch implements part of Class A end-devices SoftMAC defined in LoRaWAN(TM) Specification Ver. 1.0.2: 1. End-device receive slot timing 2. Only single channel and single data rate for now 3. Unconfirmed data up/down message types On the other side, it defines the basic interface and operation functions for compatible LoRa device drivers. Signed-off-by: Jian-Hong Pan <redacted> --- V2: - Split the LoRaWAN class module patch in V1 into LoRaWAN socket and LoRaWAN Soft MAC modules - Modify for Big/Little-Endian - Use SPDX license identifiers V3: - Remove the decoration word - inline of the functions - Order local variables from longest to shortest line in the functions - Change the calling mac_cb function to lrw_get_mac_cb macro V4: - Fix the delay period between RX window#1 and window#2 - Fix by coding style report from scripts/checkpatch.pl V5: - Initial rx_skb_list when it is allocated with LoRa hardware - Check the sk_buff's data length before access it - Deal FPort field and decrypt payload in lrw_parse_frame function - Drop the recieved frame if parse failed - Fix the bug which passes wrong skb properties from maclorawan to lorawan module net/maclorawan/Kconfig | 14 + net/maclorawan/Makefile | 2 + net/maclorawan/mac.c | 555 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/maclorawan/main.c | 606 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 1177 insertions(+) create mode 100644 net/maclorawan/Kconfig create mode 100644 net/maclorawan/Makefile create mode 100644 net/maclorawan/mac.c create mode 100644 net/maclorawan/main.cI don't get it. In patch "Add LoRaWAN API declaration for LoRa devices" you add headers for "API" and here you implement functions. That is just weird. Does it mean you can have other implementations?
LoRaWAN defined by LoRa Alliance(TM) is the MAC layer over LoRa PHY. This part is soft-MAC as Andreas mentioned http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-lpwan/2018-December/000010.html
Also, you don't really have any user of this API in the set. Please introduce at least 1 driver, preferably more (I see that Andreas has multiple ones in his patchset). You cannot push kernel infrastructure without kernel user.
The soft-MAC is suitable for the LoRa chips' device drivers, like sx1276/77/78/79, RFM95/96/97/98W ... Still waiting for Andreas' sx1276 version 2 patch and more discussion. For example, how to make PF_LORA and PF_LORAWAN like Ethernet, PF_INET and PF_INET6 don't need separate devices either, both use eth0. https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/3/266 Jian-Hong Pan