mac802154: monitor device support
Support for monitor device intended to capture all the network activity.
This interface could be used by networks sniffers and is already
supported by WireShark. That's a good test point to check that basic
MAC support works.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/nl802154.h b/include/linux/nl802154.h
index 2015ad2..5a3db3a 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl802154.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl802154.h
@@ -129,6 +129,20 @@
enum {
__IEEE802154_DEV_INVALID = -1,
+
+ /* TODO:
+ * Nowadays three device types supported by this stack at linux-zigbee
+ * project: WPAN = 0, MONITOR = 1 and SMAC = 2.
+ *
+ * Since this stack implementation exists many years, it's definitely
+ * bad idea to change the assigned values due to they are already used
+ * by third-party userspace software like: iz-tools, wireshark...
+ *
+ * Currently only monitor device is added and initialized by '1' for
+ * compatibility.
+ */
+ IEEE802154_DEV_MONITOR = 1,
+
__IEEE802154_DEV_MAX,
};