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| author | Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de> | 2014-05-16 17:46:45 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-05-16 17:23:42 -0400 |
| commit | f0f77dc6be76ed1854b08688390e156e4b351ab5 (patch) | |
| tree | 07e7cdba0bc3a096bf2933da0a1af984e6ae4dd2 /include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h | |
| parent | 3e9c156e2c210ab67b12b1b692983a6b97c19d3f (diff) | |
ieee802154, mac802154: implement devkey record option
The 802.15.4-2011 standard states that for each key, a list of devices
that use this key shall be kept. Previous patches have only considered
two options:
* a device "uses" (or may use) all keys, rendering the list useless
* a device is restricted to a certain set of keys
Another option would be that a device *may* use all keys, but need not
do so, and we are interested in the actual set of keys the device uses.
Recording keys used by any given device may have a noticable performance
impact and might not be needed as often. The common case, in which a
device will not switch keys too often, should still perform well.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h b/include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h index eb9f850a51b..3b53c8e405e 100644 --- a/include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h +++ b/include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h @@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ struct ieee802154_llsec_device_key { enum { IEEE802154_LLSEC_DEVKEY_IGNORE, IEEE802154_LLSEC_DEVKEY_RESTRICT, + IEEE802154_LLSEC_DEVKEY_RECORD, __IEEE802154_LLSEC_DEVKEY_MAX, }; |