Re: [Linux-zigbee-devel] Simplifying the 802.15.4 stack

2014-03-12 Thread Phoebe Buckheister
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:30:12 +0400 Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > Helo, […] > > Differentiating between different roles of a device with different > > types of interfaces is a sensible idea. I'm not actually opposed to > > that, quite the contrary - I am mainly interested in a working and > > s

Re: [Linux-zigbee-devel] Simplifying the 802.15.4 stack

2014-03-11 Thread Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
Helo, On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Phoebe Buckheister wrote: > On Fri, March 7, 2014 11:16 pm, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Phoebe Buckheister >> wrote: [skipped] >>> 3) the mac802154_priv slave list >>> >>> This is one of the biggest problems I think th

Re: [Linux-zigbee-devel] Simplifying the 802.15.4 stack

2014-03-10 Thread Martin Townsend
Hi, I am maintaining a driver outside of the kernel. I'm more than happy to keep abreast of any changes via this forum and implement any changes needed. On Point 3) I would be happy to see this go, for us it will be 1 WPAN <-> 1 PHY. Point 4) Yielding the processor in the driver doesn't feel r

Re: [Linux-zigbee-devel] Simplifying the 802.15.4 stack

2014-03-08 Thread Phoebe Buckheister
This is a reply to Dmitrys mail, which went only to linux-zigbee-devel. The full text of Dmitrys mail is included for interested netdev readers that are not on linux-zigbee-devel. On Fri, March 7, 2014 11:16 pm, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Phoebe Buc

Re: [Linux-zigbee-devel] Simplifying the 802.15.4 stack

2014-03-07 Thread Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
Hello, On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Phoebe Buckheister wrote: > Hi, > > the 802.15.4/6LoWPAN stack on Linux is pretty usable as it is now, much > due to the recent 6lowpan fixes by Alex. We can drive different radio > chips on different frequencies, IPv6 works well and we interoperate > just f

Re: [Linux-zigbee-devel] Simplifying the 802.15.4 stack

2014-03-07 Thread Phoebe Buckheister
On Fri, March 7, 2014 8:38 pm, Werner Almesberger wrote: >> 1) header handling in the stack >> 2) endianness in the stack > > I don't care much about these, but jumping between byte orders is > certainly confusing. As long as an API user can tell easily and > unambiguously what was or will be in th

Re: [Linux-zigbee-devel] Simplifying the 802.15.4 stack

2014-03-07 Thread Werner Almesberger
Phoebe Buckheister wrote: > the 802.15.4/6LoWPAN stack on Linux is pretty usable as it is now, much > due to the recent 6lowpan fixes by Alex. Indeed, thanks to the work both of you did ! Regarding the proposed massive changes, I think everyone who had a closer look at the stack knows that (too)