Re: [net-next 01/18] ieee802154: hwsim: Ensure proper channel selection at probe time

[Alexander Aring]

Hi,

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 18:08, Alexander Aring <alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 10:44, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Alexander,
> >
> > alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx wrote on Tue, 28 Dec 2021 16:05:43 -0500:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 at 10:57, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > A default channel is selected by default (13), let's clarify that this
> > > > is page 0 channel 13. Call the right helper to ensure the necessary
> > > > configuration for this channel has been applied.
> > > >
> > > > So far there is very little configuration done in this helper but we
> > > > will soon add more information (like the symbol duration which is
> > > > missing) and having this helper called at probe time will prevent us to
> > > > this type of initialization at two different locations.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I see why this patch is necessary because in later patches the symbol
> > > duration is set at ".set_channel()" callback like the at86rf230 driver
> > > is doing it.
> > > However there is an old TODO [0]. I think we should combine it and
> > > implement it in ieee802154_set_channel() of "net/mac802154/cfg.c".
> > > Also do the symbol duration setting according to the channel/page when
> > > we call ieee802154_register_hw(), so we have it for the default
> > > settings.
> >
> > While I totally agree on the background idea, I don't really see how
> > this is possible. Every driver internally knows what it supports but
> > AFAIU the core itself has no easy and standard access to it?
> >
>
> I am a little bit confused here, because a lot of timing related
> things in the phy information rate points to "x times symbols". If

s/rate/base/

- Alex