On 8/11/10, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 8/10/10, Jon Smirl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Other network hardware has a include/linux/if_xxxx.h file describing
>> it. IEEE 802.15.4 has the same info, it is just spread out over
>> different files.  There are also naming conventions that don't match.
>> For example IEEE80215_ADDR_LEN vs ARCNET_ALEN, ETH_ALEN, etc...
>
> I don't like this change: *_ALEN usually means the length of the _whole_
> address as used on the wire. OTOH IEEE802154_ADDR_LEN is the length
> only of 64bit part of the address.

Reconsidering: you can add _ALEN constant to the ieee802154.h header, while
not removing IEEE802154_ADDR_LEN from af_ieee801254.h. This should allow
us to clean up some files which include af_ieee802154.h only to get that magic
64/8=8 address length constant.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

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