Added debug output that warns about packets that are dropped
because the transceiver buffer was full or because the transceiver
failed to notify aiting upper layers.
Boards should define HWTIMER_SPIN_BARRIER that is used to decide
whether it makes sense to set a timer and yield or call hwtimer_spin
instead.
Used by `core/hwtimer.c` and `sys/vtimer/vtimer.c`.
A default value is provided and a warning is printed when it is used.
`bloom_t` is defined as a struct.
`_t` can mislead the user to think of bloom_t
as a typedef (see our coding conventions) instead of a struct.
Thus, I modified `struct bloom_t` to be a *typedefed* struct.
Another solution would be to rename bloom_t to sth. like bloom_s
everywhere and use `struct bloom_s` instead of `bloom_t`.
Currently, the tcp and udp implementations are bound to each other in a
module called *destiny*. Thus, when using only one of them then the
other one gets also compiled into the binary and initialized,
which results in unnecessary RAM usage and workload for the CPU.
The approach in this PR defines a common module named *socket_base*,
which contains functions used by the posix layer. Compiled by it's own,
those functions return negative error codes, to symbolize upper layers
that they are not supported. When also including the modules *udp* or
*tcp* respectively, functions from *socket_base* get overwritten with the
correct functionality.
Defining *udp* or *tcp* in a Makefile also includes *socket_base*.
Defining *pnet* in a Makefile also includes *socket_base*.
If there's no IPv6 address configured so far to any interface, 6lowpan
should not try to handle incoming packets. This can easily lead to
looping packets.
The transceiver check if it is already running when initializing.
However, this check was done by comparing its pid for >= 0, which is not
sensible anymore since valid PIDs only start at 1.
In many places we needlessly use `sched_active_thread->pid` whilst we
already have `sched_active_pid` with the same value, and one less
indirection.
`thread_getpid()` is made `static inline` so that there is no penalty in
using this function over accessing `sched_active_pid` directly.
