Hi, it's me again, dumping my latest brainstorm into the thread :D. Don't we need some kind of priorities for the routing protocols, too? Or how does the FIB decide which next hop to choose if more than routing protocol made an entry pointing to it?
Cheers, Martine 2014-11-17 8:05 GMT+01:00 Martin <martin.landsm...@haw-hamburg.de>: > Hi Martine, > > >... Except you mean the routing protocol by this. > yes, the `prot_id` is the actual used (running) protocol, i.e. RPL. > This identifier must be unique for the running RIOT on the node, i.e. > arbitrary but fixed for the lifetime. > > The "binding" of FIB table entries to a specific (running) protocol is > necessary only for updates on them. > > Probably `kernel_pid_t` for the would be a waste of one byte for each FIB > table entry. > I will keep it `uint8_t` for now, but test a bit with `kernel_pid_t`. > > > Best regards, > Martin > > > On 15.11.2014 02:03, Martine Lenders wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > 2014-11-14 15:23 GMT+01:00 Martin <martin.landsm...@haw-hamburg.de>: > >> Hi Martine, >> >> I will change the interface and protocol IDs to `kernel_type_t` as you >> suggested. >> For the FIB handling perspective this seems also to be the best (and >> easiest) way to have the IDs unique on one RIOT/node. >> > > For protocol IDs I suggest `netdev_proto_t` [1]. Except you mean the > routing protocol by this. It aims, at least regarding my design, to be the > RIOT-global identifier for all network protocol RIOT supports. > > Cheers, > Martine > > [1] > https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/blob/038beb0f99215207c09fd862ac7712982cedb3ef/drivers/include/netdev/base.h#L57 > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing > listdevel@riot-os.orghttp://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@riot-os.org > http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > >
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