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    ieee802154: introduce wpan_dev_header_ops · 838b83d6
    Alexander Aring authored
    The current header_ops callback structure of net device are used mostly
    from 802.15.4 upper-layers. Because this callback structure is a very
    generic one, which is also used by e.g. DGRAM AF_PACKET sockets, we
    can't make this callback structure 802.15.4 specific which is currently
    is.
    
    I saw the smallest "constraint" for calling this callback with
    dev_hard_header/dev_parse_header by AF_PACKET which assign a 8 byte
    array for address void pointers. Currently 802.15.4 specific protocols
    like af802154 and 6LoWPAN will assign the "struct ieee802154_addr" as
    these parameters which is greater than 8 bytes. The current callback
    implementation for header_ops.create assumes always a complete
    "struct ieee802154_addr" which AF_PACKET can't never handled and is
    greater than 8 bytes.
    
    For that reason we introduce now a "generic" create/parse header_ops
    callback which allows handling with intra-pan extended addresses only.
    This allows a small use-case with AF_PACKET to send "somehow" a valid
    dataframe over DGRAM.
    
    To keeping the current dev_hard_header behaviour we introduce a similar
    callback structure "wpan_dev_header_ops" which contains 802.15.4 specific
    upper-layer header creation functionality, which can be called by
    wpan_dev_hard_header.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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