2 Netdev private dataroom for 6lowpan interfaces:
4 All 6lowpan able net devices, means all interfaces with ARPHRD_6LOWPAN,
5 must have "struct lowpan_priv" placed at beginning of netdev_priv.
7 The priv_size of each interface should be calculate by:
9 dev->priv_size = LOWPAN_PRIV_SIZE(LL_6LOWPAN_PRIV_DATA);
11 Where LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA is sizeof linklayer 6lowpan private data struct.
12 To access the LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA structure you can cast:
14 lowpan_priv(dev)-priv;
16 to your LL_6LOWPAN_PRIV_DATA structure.
18 Before registering the lowpan netdev interface you must run:
20 lowpan_netdev_setup(dev, LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR);
22 wheres LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR is a define for your 6LoWPAN linklayer type of
25 Example to evaluate the private usually you can do:
27 static inline struct lowpan_priv_foobar *
28 lowpan_foobar_priv(struct net_device *dev)
30 return (struct lowpan_priv_foobar *)lowpan_priv(dev)->priv;
35 lowpan_priv = lowpan_priv(dev);
36 /* do great stuff which is ARPHRD_6LOWPAN related */
37 switch (lowpan_priv->lltype) {
38 case LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR:
39 /* do 802.15.4 6LoWPAN handling here */
40 lowpan_foobar_priv(dev)->bar = foo;
48 In case of generic 6lowpan branch ("net/6lowpan") you can remove the check
49 on ARPHRD_6LOWPAN, because you can be sure that these function are called
50 by ARPHRD_6LOWPAN interfaces.