From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de> To: Jian-Hong Pan <starnight@g.ncu.edu.tw>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Ben Whitten <ben.whitten@lairdtech.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-lpwan@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>, Dollar Chen <dollar.chen@wtmec.com>, Ken Yu <ken.yu@rakwireless.com>, linux-wpan - ML <linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] net: maclorawan: Implement maclorawan class module Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:49:03 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <60ff6940-4bcc-750c-ad38-0a183375169f@suse.de> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAC=mGziN5KrXPMAXoN_hhfQrtofCeyzTr4AjbbJLOoJ+p2+Nng@mail.gmail.com> Am 18.12.18 um 15:27 schrieb Jian-Hong Pan: >> Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 11:18:59AM CET, starnight@g.ncu.edu.tw wrote: >>> 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 <starnight@g.ncu.edu.tw> [...] >>> 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.c >> >> I 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. sx1276 regmap conversion was pushed to my staging tree together with Ben's sx1301 final conversion last night, lightly tested. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/afaerber/linux-lora.git/log/?h=lora-next TBD: rename to sx127x, implement regmap fields, only auto-detect reset when no OF node available (all low priority atm, patches welcome) (and for sx1301 I still need to update my DT overlays with the new clk) > 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 Jiri, I am expecting the maclorawan driver to lower packets from ETH_P_LORAWAN to ETH_P_LORA in a generic way, so that any of the LoRa device drivers can benefit of it, with maclorawan using the LoRa netlink commands that the individual drivers implement. Not sure what if anything is missing for that in the current revision? Still dealing with the lower-level infrastructure and my test setup ... progressing slowly. I'll probably need to queue the remaining generic LoRaWAN part 1/6 in my tree to resolve this circular dependency between Jian-Hong and me, so that only the soft-MAC implementation remains a separate patch series. The hard-MAC implementations will be on my plate mostly, as both SX1276 and SX1301 need the soft-MAC. Regards, Andreas -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de> To: Jian-Hong Pan <starnight@g.ncu.edu.tw>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Ben Whitten <ben.whitten@lairdtech.com> Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-lpwan@lists.infradead.org, Dollar Chen <dollar.chen@wtmec.com>, Ken Yu <ken.yu@rakwireless.com>, linux-wpan - ML <linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] net: maclorawan: Implement maclorawan class module Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:49:03 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <60ff6940-4bcc-750c-ad38-0a183375169f@suse.de> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAC=mGziN5KrXPMAXoN_hhfQrtofCeyzTr4AjbbJLOoJ+p2+Nng@mail.gmail.com> Am 18.12.18 um 15:27 schrieb Jian-Hong Pan: >> Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 11:18:59AM CET, starnight@g.ncu.edu.tw wrote: >>> 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 <starnight@g.ncu.edu.tw> [...] >>> 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.c >> >> I 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. sx1276 regmap conversion was pushed to my staging tree together with Ben's sx1301 final conversion last night, lightly tested. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/afaerber/linux-lora.git/log/?h=lora-next TBD: rename to sx127x, implement regmap fields, only auto-detect reset when no OF node available (all low priority atm, patches welcome) (and for sx1301 I still need to update my DT overlays with the new clk) > 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 Jiri, I am expecting the maclorawan driver to lower packets from ETH_P_LORAWAN to ETH_P_LORA in a generic way, so that any of the LoRa device drivers can benefit of it, with maclorawan using the LoRa netlink commands that the individual drivers implement. Not sure what if anything is missing for that in the current revision? Still dealing with the lower-level infrastructure and my test setup ... progressing slowly. I'll probably need to queue the remaining generic LoRaWAN part 1/6 in my tree to resolve this circular dependency between Jian-Hong and me, so that only the soft-MAC implementation remains a separate patch series. The hard-MAC implementations will be on my plate mostly, as both SX1276 and SX1301 need the soft-MAC. Regards, Andreas -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-18 18:49 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 162+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2018-08-23 17:15 [RFC 0/3 net] lorawan: Add LoRaWAN soft MAC module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` [RFC 1/3 net] lorawan: Add LoRaWAN class module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:43 ` Randy Dunlap 2018-08-23 17:43 ` Randy Dunlap 2018-08-23 17:43 ` Randy Dunlap 2018-08-23 17:43 ` Randy Dunlap 2018-08-24 15:58 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-24 15:58 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-24 15:58 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-09-23 16:40 ` Andreas Färber 2018-09-23 16:40 ` Andreas Färber 2018-09-23 16:40 ` Andreas Färber 2018-09-26 15:52 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-09-26 15:52 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-09-26 15:52 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` [PATCH V2 0/7] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN soft MAC module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` [PATCH V2 1/7] net: lorawan: Add macro and definition for LoRaWAN Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` [PATCH V2 2/7] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN socket module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 18:16 ` David Miller 2018-11-05 18:16 ` David Miller 2018-11-06 14:28 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-06 14:28 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` [PATCH V3 0/7] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN soft MAC module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` [PATCH V3 1/7] net: lorawan: Add macro and definition for LoRaWAN Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:12 ` Andreas Färber 2018-11-14 16:12 ` Andreas Färber 2018-11-17 6:47 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-17 6:47 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-17 6:47 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` [PATCH V3 2/7] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN socket module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-17 4:32 ` David Miller 2018-11-17 4:32 ` David Miller 2018-11-17 14:54 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-17 14:54 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` [PATCH V4 0/6] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN soft MAC module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` [PATCH V4 1/6] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN socket module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` [PATCH V4 2/6] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN API declaration for LoRa devices Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` [PATCH V4 3/6] net: maclorawan: Add maclorawan module declaration Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` [PATCH V4 4/6] net: maclorawan: Implement the crypto of maclorawan module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` [PATCH V4 5/6] net: maclorawan: Implement maclorawan class module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 20:45 ` Alan Cox 2018-12-04 20:45 ` Alan Cox 2018-12-04 20:45 ` Alan Cox 2018-12-09 8:27 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-09 8:27 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` [PATCH v5 0/6] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN soft MAC module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-17 13:51 ` Jiri Pirko 2018-12-17 13:51 ` Jiri Pirko 2018-12-16 10:18 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN socket module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-29 7:27 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-29 7:27 ` Andreas Färber 2019-01-07 14:47 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2019-01-07 14:47 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2019-01-07 14:47 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2019-01-13 14:51 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2019-01-13 14:51 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2019-01-13 14:51 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN API declaration for LoRa devices Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] net: maclorawan: Add maclorawan module declaration Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] net: maclorawan: Implement the crypto of maclorawan module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] net: maclorawan: Implement maclorawan class module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:18 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-17 14:02 ` Jiri Pirko 2018-12-17 14:02 ` Jiri Pirko 2018-12-18 14:27 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-18 14:27 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-18 14:27 ` Jiri Pirko 2018-12-18 14:27 ` Jiri Pirko 2018-12-18 15:34 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-18 15:34 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-18 18:49 ` Andreas Färber [this message] 2018-12-18 18:49 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-19 11:27 ` Ben Whitten 2018-12-19 11:27 ` Ben Whitten 2018-12-19 11:27 ` Ben Whitten 2018-12-19 16:26 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-19 16:26 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-20 9:20 ` Xue Liu 2018-12-20 16:00 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-28 8:11 ` Netlink userspace tools for LoRa(WAN), FSK, Sigfox, BLE, etc. (was: [PATCH v5 5/6] net: maclorawan: Implement maclorawan class module) Andreas Färber 2018-12-28 15:49 ` Alexander Aring 2018-12-20 10:19 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] net: maclorawan: Implement maclorawan class module Ben Whitten 2018-12-20 10:19 ` Ben Whitten 2018-12-20 15:31 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-20 15:31 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-20 15:31 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-16 10:19 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] net: lorawan: List LORAWAN in menuconfig Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-16 10:19 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-17 8:50 ` Xue Liu 2018-12-17 8:50 ` Xue Liu 2018-12-17 14:19 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-17 14:19 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-18 13:50 ` Xue Liu 2018-12-18 13:50 ` Xue Liu 2018-12-24 15:32 ` Alexander Aring 2018-12-24 15:32 ` Alexander Aring 2018-12-28 4:57 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-28 4:57 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-28 15:43 ` Alexander Aring 2018-12-28 15:43 ` Alexander Aring 2018-12-29 6:28 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-29 6:28 ` Andreas Färber 2018-12-04 14:13 ` [PATCH V4 " Jian-Hong Pan 2018-12-04 14:13 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` [PATCH V3 3/7] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN API declaration for LoRa devices Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` [PATCH V3 4/7] net: maclorawan: Add maclorawan module declaration Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-17 4:32 ` David Miller 2018-11-17 4:32 ` David Miller 2018-11-17 6:32 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-17 6:32 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` [PATCH V3 5/7] net: maclorawan: Implement the crypto of maclorawan module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` [PATCH V3 6/7] net: maclorawan: Implement maclorawan class module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` [PATCH V3 7/7] net: lorawan: List LORAWAN in menuconfig Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-14 16:01 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` [PATCH V2 3/7] net: lorawan: Add LoRaWAN API declaration for LoRa devices Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` [PATCH V2 4/7] net: maclorawan: Add maclorawan module declaration Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` [PATCH V2 5/7] net: maclorawan: Implement the crypto of maclorawan module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` [PATCH V2 6/7] net: maclorawan: Implement maclorawan class module Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` [PATCH V2 7/7] net: lorawan: List LORAWAN in menuconfig Jian-Hong Pan 2018-11-05 16:55 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` [RFC 2/3 net] lorawan: Add macro and definition for LoRaWAN class modlue Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-09-23 16:06 ` Andreas Färber 2018-09-23 16:06 ` Andreas Färber 2018-09-23 16:06 ` Andreas Färber 2018-09-26 14:46 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-09-26 14:46 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-09-26 14:46 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` [RFC 3/3 net] lorawan: List LORAWAN in menuconfig Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` Jian-Hong Pan 2018-08-23 17:15 ` Jian-Hong Pan
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