It served no purpose: we never call it from anywhere in the stack
and the only driver that did implement it (fakehard) merely provided
a dummy value.
There is also considerable doubt whether it would make sense to
even attempt beacon processing at this level in the Linux kernel.
Signed-off-by: Werner Almesberger <wer...@almesberger.net>
---
drivers/net/ieee802154/fakehard.c | 21 ---------------------
include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/fakehard.c
b/drivers/net/ieee802154/fakehard.c
index 8f1c256..bf0d55e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/fakehard.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/fakehard.c
@@ -106,26 +106,6 @@ static u8 fake_get_dsn(const struct net_device *dev)
}
/**
- * fake_get_bsn - Retrieve the BSN of the device.
- * @dev: The network device to retrieve the BSN for.
- *
- * Returns the IEEE 802.15.4 BSN for the network device.
- * The BSN is the sequence number which will be added to each
- * beacon frame sent by the MAC.
- *
- * BSN means 'Beacon Sequence Number'.
- *
- * Note: This is in section 7.2.1.2 of the IEEE 802.15.4-2006
- * document.
- */
-static u8 fake_get_bsn(const struct net_device *dev)
-{
- BUG_ON(dev->type != ARPHRD_IEEE802154);
-
- return 0x00; /* BSN are implemented in HW, so return just 0 */
-}
-
-/**
* fake_assoc_req - Make an association request to the HW.
* @dev: The network device which we are associating to a network.
* @addr: The coordinator with which we wish to associate.
@@ -264,7 +244,6 @@ static struct ieee802154_mlme_ops fake_mlme = {
.get_pan_id = fake_get_pan_id,
.get_short_addr = fake_get_short_addr,
.get_dsn = fake_get_dsn,
- .get_bsn = fake_get_bsn,
};
static int ieee802154_fake_open(struct net_device *dev)
diff --git a/include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h b/include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h
index d104c88..642f94c 100644
--- a/include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h
+++ b/include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ struct ieee802154_mlme_ops {
u16 (*get_pan_id)(const struct net_device *dev);
u16 (*get_short_addr)(const struct net_device *dev);
u8 (*get_dsn)(const struct net_device *dev);
- u8 (*get_bsn)(const struct net_device *dev);
};
/* The IEEE 802.15.4 standard defines 2 type of the devices:
--
1.7.10.4
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