On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Take a look at the other versions of linux/if_xxxx to see what is
normally in the file.

-- 
Jon Smirl
[email protected]

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