When dealing with 802.15.4, one often has to know the maximum payload
size for a given packet. This depends on many factors, one of which is
whether or not a security header is present in the frame. These
definitions and functions provide an easy way for any upper layer to
calculate the maximum payload size for a packet. The first obvious user
for this is 6lowpan, which duplicates this calculation and gets it
partially wrong because it ignores security headers.
Signed-off-by: NPhoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch provides a set of structures to represent 802.15.4 MAC
headers, and a set of operations to push/pull/peek these structs from
skbs. We cannot simply pointer-cast the skb MAC header pointer to these
structs, because 802.15.4 headers are wildly variable - depending on the
first three bytes, virtually all other fields of the header may be
present or not, and be present with different lengths.

The new header creation/parsing routines also support 802.15.4 security
headers, which are currently not supported by the mac802154
implementation of the protocol.
Signed-off-by: NPhoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds support for frame fragmentation.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

include/net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.h (and others) naming seems to be too long
and redundant. Drop one level of subdirectories.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>

Add support for communication over IEEE 802.15.4 networks. This implementation
is neither certified nor complete, but aims to that goal. This commit contains
only the socket interface for communication over IEEE 802.15.4 networks.
One can either send RAW datagrams or use SOCK_DGRAM to encapsulate data
inside normal IEEE 802.15.4 packets.

Configuration interface, drivers and software MAC 802.15.4 implementation will
follow.

Initial implementation was done by Maxim Gorbachyov, Maxim Osipov and Pavel
Smolensky as a research project at Siemens AG. Later the stack was heavily
reworked to better suit the linux networking model, and is now maitained
as an open project partially sponsored by Siemens.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NSergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>