On Saturday 28 June 2014 20:33:38 Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch series includes a rework of the at86rf230 driver.
> 
> There are several changes:
> 
>  - Add regmap support.
>  - Merge at86rf212 operations with generic at86rf2xx operations, all chips
>    supports these operations.
>  - Drop of irqworker. This is a workqueue which will scheduled by an irq to
>    handle synchronous spi handling. Instead using asynchronous spi handling,
> then no scheduler is involved at irq handling.
>  - Also detected some bugs by receiving frame like CRC can be correct and a
>    802.15.4 frame length could be above 127 bytes. This would crash the
> whole kernel (but should be handled by the mac layer). Another bug is the
> handling with RX_SAFE_MODE which protect the frame buffer after a readout.
> This is currently not working because we read out the buffer twice and the
> first one to get the frame size. Solution is to readout always the whole
> frame buffer. - Added some timing relevants things from the datasheet for
> state changes And IEEE 802.15.4 standard like interframe spacing.
> Interframe spacing is needed to insert some receiving space time between
> frame transmitting. This should be also handled by MAC layer, but it's
> currently a workaround to add this inside the driver layer.
>  - Add some callback setting for chip specific handling, instead of runtime
> decisions if (is_chip_type()). Callbacks are set only once at probe time. -
> We don't using a force state change anymore. A force state change will do a
> abort of receiving frames while we want to transmit a new frame. This
> should decrease the drop rate of packets.
>  - And many others changes and bug fixes...
> 
> 
> - Alex
> 
> Alexander Aring (13):
>   mac802154: at86rf230: add hw flags and merge ops
>   at86rf230: add regmap support
>   at86rf230: rework detect device handling
>   at86rf230: remove is212 and add driver data
>   at86rf230: add support for at86rf23x desense
>   at86rf230: rework transmit and receive handling
>   at86rf230: move RX_SAFE_MODE setting to hw_init
>   at86rf230: rework irq_pol setting
>   at86rf230: rework state change and start/stop
>   at86rf230: rework reset to trx_off state change
>   at86rf230: add timing for channel switch
>   at86rf230: add sleep cycle timing
>   at86rf230: add new author
> 
>  drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig     |    1 +
>  drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c | 1464
> +++++++++++++++++++++++------------- include/net/mac802154.h            |  
> 19 +
>  net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c     |   12 +-
>  4 files changed, 951 insertions(+), 545 deletions(-)

Tested with at86rf233

Tested-by: Thomas Stilwell <stilwe...@openlabs.co>



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