Where to store the stack "state"

[Harald Welte]

Hi Sylvain,

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 02:19:18PM +0200, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
 
> To add support for traffic extraction, it's necessary to introduce
> some nothing of "state" in the MAC layer (since the DL_USAGE must be
> 'remembered' to know how to interpret further data) ...
> 
> Any suggestion how to achieve that as cleanly as possible ?
> 
> Having a global doesn't sound that nice, but passing a struct around either.
> Maybe introduce a pointer to a 'tetra_state' in the primitive struct ?

I have been thinking about the same issue while working on the LLC reassembly,
which obviously also needs state.

I guess in the end we will have something like a global 'tetra_carrier_state'
struct, which then has sub-structs for the logical channels that we see.

And as I've now extended the primitive to use a msgb for storing the actual
unpacked type-1 bits, I guess we could simply use something out of msgb->cb
to point to the 'lchan' (in OpenBSC terminology).

Cheers,
	Harald
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