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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.rst b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.rst index 36ca823a1122..c652d383fe10 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.rst @@ -26,12 +26,14 @@ The stack is composed of three main parts: Socket API ========== -.. c:function:: int sd = socket(PF_IEEE802154, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); +:: + + int sd = socket(PF_IEEE802154, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); The address family, socket addresses etc. are defined in the include/net/af_ieee802154.h header or in the special header -in the userspace package (see either http://wpan.cakelab.org/ or the -git tree at https://github.com/linux-wpan/wpan-tools). +in the userspace package (see either https://linux-wpan.org/wpan-tools.html +or the git tree at https://github.com/linux-wpan/wpan-tools). 6LoWPAN Linux implementation ============================ @@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ Like with WiFi, there are several types of devices implementing IEEE 802.15.4. exports a management (e.g. MLME) and data API. 2) 'SoftMAC' or just radio. These types of devices are just radio transceivers possibly with some kinds of acceleration like automatic CRC computation and -comparation, automagic ACK handling, address matching, etc. +comparison, automagic ACK handling, address matching, etc. Those types of devices require different approach to be hooked into Linux kernel. @@ -131,12 +133,12 @@ Register PHY in the system. Freeing registered PHY. -.. c:function:: void ieee802154_rx_irqsafe(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 lqi): +.. c:function:: void ieee802154_rx_irqsafe(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 lqi) Telling 802.15.4 module there is a new received frame in the skb with the RF Link Quality Indicator (LQI) from the hardware device. -.. c:function:: void ieee802154_xmit_complete(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, bool ifs_handling): +.. c:function:: void ieee802154_xmit_complete(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, bool ifs_handling) Telling 802.15.4 module the frame in the skb is or going to be transmitted through the hardware device @@ -155,25 +157,25 @@ operations structure at least:: ... }; -.. c:function:: int start(struct ieee802154_hw *hw): +.. c:function:: int start(struct ieee802154_hw *hw) Handler that 802.15.4 module calls for the hardware device initialization. -.. c:function:: void stop(struct ieee802154_hw *hw): +.. c:function:: void stop(struct ieee802154_hw *hw) Handler that 802.15.4 module calls for the hardware device cleanup. -.. c:function:: int xmit_async(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb): +.. c:function:: int xmit_async(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb) Handler that 802.15.4 module calls for each frame in the skb going to be transmitted through the hardware device. -.. c:function:: int ed(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, u8 *level): +.. c:function:: int ed(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, u8 *level) Handler that 802.15.4 module calls for Energy Detection from the hardware device. -.. c:function:: int set_channel(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, u8 page, u8 channel): +.. c:function:: int set_channel(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, u8 page, u8 channel) Set radio for listening on specific channel of the hardware device. |