From: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheis...@itwm.fraunhofer.de> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:23:56 +0100
> This patch set enforces network byte order on all internal operations and > fields of the 802.15.4 stack and adds a general representation of 802.15.4 > headers with operations to create and parse those headers. This reduces code > duplication in the current stack and also allows for upper layers to read > headers of packets they have just received; it is also necessary for 802.15.4 > link layer security, which requires header mangling. ... > Changes since v1: > * fixed lowpan packet rx after reassembly. Control blocks were used to > retrieve source/dest addresses, but the CB is clobbered by reassembly. > Instead, parse the header anew in lowpan. Series applied, thanks. > What this patch set does *not* do is change endianness of the netlink/socket > API. I would very much wish to change that as well. My research has uncovered > two projects that use the stack, both of which extensively copy kernel headers > that were never part of uapi and were also never installed as userspace > headers > before the uapi split. One of those projects is lowpan-tools[1], which is > easily changed, and IBR-DTN[2], which does not seem to make much use of the > stack either. In fact, the near uselessness of 6lowpan until a few weeks ago > and a number of minor problems with datagram sockets suggests that nobody has > ever used the stack for more than cursory experiments. Moreover, most projects > on the internet that run on Linux and make some use of 802.15.4 radios even > include their own drivers and often implement their own version of the > protocol > stack. > > The fact that the only users I could find copy private headers to get their > definitions would have me assume that it's okay to change those headers and > the > definitions, since the were never actually exposed. Is this correct, does it > allow us to change the netlink/socket API that already exists? > > [1] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/linux-zigbee/wiki > [2] http://trac.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/project-cm-2012-ibrdtn/ If the kernel exported an interface to the user, you're stuck with it, sorry. It doesn't matter if the headers were messed up or incomplete. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Linux-zigbee-devel mailing list Linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-zigbee-devel
