6lowpan: always enable link-layer acknowledgments
This feature is especially important when using fragmentation, because
the reassembly mechanism cannot recover from the loss of a fragment.
Note that some hardware ignore this flag and not will not transmit
acknowledgments even if this is set.
Signed-off-by: Tony Cheneau <tony.cheneau@amnesiak.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
index 9f53904..e7f61de 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
@@ -584,6 +584,10 @@
mac_cb(skb)->flags = IEEE802154_FC_TYPE_DATA;
+ /* request acknowledgment when possible */
+ if (!lowpan_is_addr_broadcast(daddr))
+ mac_cb(skb)->flags |= MAC_CB_FLAG_ACKREQ;
+
return dev_hard_header(skb, lowpan_dev_info(dev)->real_dev,
type, (void *)&da, (void *)&sa, skb->len);
}