On 3 March 2012 18:40, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbarysh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Summary on all the patchset below. > > Prajosh, Felix. Thanks for your work on IEEE 802.15.4 for Linux. Please > don't find my mails as discouraging or otherwise demoting your work. > There are some coding standards. There are some ideas behind code. There > is more than just blindly following standard text letter by letter.
Firstly, thanks a lot for spending time to review these patches. We understand that we need put in a lot of work on them, and we are prepared to do that. > First, your mixup of terms PIB and MIB leads to confusion. PIB, the way we meant it, stands for PAN Information Base, as defined in IEEE 802.15.4-2006. It is a collection of attributes, each of which has an attribute id and a corresponding value. It includes MAC PIB (stuff like short address, PAN ID, etc.) and PHY PIB (channel, channel page, etc.). This is the terminology we tried to follow consistently in the code. If we are aiming for IEEE compliance and interoperability, we would need to implement a get and set for each and every one of these attributes (although indeed the terminology wouldn't matter!). So, even if these attributes weren't actually got or set anywhere in the code (which they would be, as an when new features are implemented), their implementation is a significant step towards building an proper 802.15.4 implementation. The PIB also forms the backbone over which the rest of the features would fit in. The MAC primitives, when implemented, will use these attributes heavily. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Linux-zigbee-devel mailing list Linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-zigbee-devel
