Hello Joe, On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Joe MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > [[oe] [meta-networking][PATCH] lldpd: Add recipe] On 15.09.15 (Tue 14:54) > Fabio Berton wrote: > >> From: Fabio Berton <[email protected]> >> >> lldpd is a 802.1AB implementation, a L2 network discovery protocol. >> It also supports CDP, EDP and various other protocols. > > I haven't looked at this in great detail yet, but it appears like it > would provide the same functionality as lldpad, already in > meta-networking: > > commit 6781f9b5dc60bbd39727aeaa74c13dd31eb73838 > Author: Qian Lei <[email protected]> > Date: Thu Dec 11 17:36:20 2014 +0800 > > lldpad: Add new recipe > > LLDPAD contains the Linux user space daemon and configuration tool for > Intel LLDP Agent with Enhanced Ethernet support for the Data Center. > > Signed-off-by: Qian Lei <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <[email protected]> > > I've no objection to carrying two different implementations, > particularly if one is more complete than the other or if one is more > actively developed, but I do have a couple of requests for you given > that you're the second one on the scene.
It seems the lldpd is way more actively maintained. We have a customer using this in an environment with some thousands of network devices with great success and we wished to upstream the recipe and avoid maintaining a closed recipe for no reason. > - Can we move your recipe to sit beside the other lldp daemon? (That > is, in recipes-daemons) I think it does make sense. Fabio, can you please do so? > - Can you update your recipe (and the other, if necessary) to provide > an appropriate PROVIDES / CONFLICTS variable? I am not sure we should. Being two alternatives nothing blocks someone to install both. To be honest, maybe this one could replace the old one for meta-network future users, if Qian Lei agrees. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
