On 07/06/2012 05:33 AM, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
>> 1. Where is the repo that you are working from? Since the git tree at
>> [1] hasn't been updated in three months, I assume you are working from
>> another tree. Is this tree accessible anywhere online? I looked at
>> linux-wsn and there's no public code there.
> Currently I'm working with net-next tree locally. Unfortunately I have
> no time to update github project but hope to do it in the nearest
> future.
>
>> 2. What is the current recommended procedure for getting a system going
>> with 802.15.4 support? In the past, Ive taken a diff from the
>> linux-zigbee tree[1] (devel branch) to 3.3-rc5 (which the linux-zigbee
>> tree is based on) and applied it to my kernel. Since this tree is now
>> out of date, and with all the new support in the mainline kernel, This
>> is likely to conflict with newer kernels. What do you currently
>> recommend? Linux-next, or maybe the answer to #1?
> linux-wsn wiki contains all the necessary information. (I believe :-) )
Yes, there is good information there. That page though says to use
net-next, which doesn't have the full linux-zigbee set of hardware
drivers in it yet. This made me wonder whether there was another repo
which had the up-to-date code of the entire project, since it's not all
upstream yet. As you said before though, there is, but it is local, but
will be pushed soon to github.
As linux-wsn seems to overlap a lot with linux-zigbee.sf.net, does that
indicate linux-wsn as the future home of this project?
>> 3. What is left that's developed in [1] (or elsewhere) that hasn't been
>> taken upstream yet (eg: drivers)? What needs to be done to get it pushed
>> upstream?
> Uuuuh, lots and lots features. The current code contains a basic
> implementation only, no ieee802.15.4 related features. So ToDo list
> contains at least the following items:
>
> 1. beacon support
> 2. coordinator support
> 3. network association
> 4. scanning
> 5. security
> 6. topologies
> 7. serial mac support
> 8. radio drivers
> etc...
>
Assign me a piece, and I'll start working on it. I'm currently most
interested in:
* getting the remaining current work upstream (including my driver :) ),
* security.
>> 4. Is there a reason your patches aren't CC'd to linux-zigbee-devel? I
>> ask because I feel like maybe I'm in the wrong place. Is this list still
>> the place to be for Linux/802.15.4, or has all the real action moved to
>> linux-netdev (or somewhere else)?
> Just to avoid flood on linux-zigbee list. Some patch-sets are huge
> (more than 10 patches) and are resubmitted several times, so I'd like
> to send here the ones were applied. you may find all the series on
> netdev list.
>
I'll get on netdev and start paying attention.
>> Don't take any of this the wrong way. I'm not criticizing. I'm trying to
>> understand, because I feel like I'm out of the loop, and I just want to
>> make sure I know where the loop is :)
> That the reason why I read messages on this list and try to reply :-)
> I highly appreciate any interest to this project and only will be glad
> to extend the developers team. So feel free to ask any questions!
Thanks for your reply.
Alan.
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