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author | alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com> | 2012-05-15 20:50:29 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-05-16 15:17:08 -0400 |
commit | 0606069d9ef538687957d41ed6387d665af7a643 (patch) | |
tree | b0e54cbdddc436a4b8fd48db676c0ab2efd55d6f /include/linux | |
parent | 62610ad21870a8cf842d4a48f07c3a964e1d2622 (diff) | |
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mac802154: monitor device support
Support for monitor device intended to capture all the network activity.
This interface could be used by networks sniffers and is already
supported by WireShark. That's a good test point to check that basic
MAC support works.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/if_arp.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/nl802154.h | 14 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/if_arp.h b/include/linux/if_arp.h index 3718acf40a0..26cb3c2c5c7 100644 --- a/include/linux/if_arp.h +++ b/include/linux/if_arp.h @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ #define ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM 802 /* IEEE 802.11 + Prism2 header */ #define ARPHRD_IEEE80211_RADIOTAP 803 /* IEEE 802.11 + radiotap header */ #define ARPHRD_IEEE802154 804 +#define ARPHRD_IEEE802154_MONITOR 805 /* IEEE 802.15.4 network monitor */ #define ARPHRD_PHONET 820 /* PhoNet media type */ #define ARPHRD_PHONET_PIPE 821 /* PhoNet pipe header */ diff --git a/include/linux/nl802154.h b/include/linux/nl802154.h index 2015ad24810..5a3db3aa5f1 100644 --- a/include/linux/nl802154.h +++ b/include/linux/nl802154.h @@ -129,6 +129,20 @@ enum { enum { __IEEE802154_DEV_INVALID = -1, + + /* TODO: + * Nowadays three device types supported by this stack at linux-zigbee + * project: WPAN = 0, MONITOR = 1 and SMAC = 2. + * + * Since this stack implementation exists many years, it's definitely + * bad idea to change the assigned values due to they are already used + * by third-party userspace software like: iz-tools, wireshark... + * + * Currently only monitor device is added and initialized by '1' for + * compatibility. + */ + IEEE802154_DEV_MONITOR = 1, + __IEEE802154_DEV_MAX, }; |