Hi Darius, On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 06:46 -0700, Darius Augulis wrote: > Hi All, > > What is the state of this project? What are the main ideas of it? > I read old posts from Dirk Brandewie and now I'm looking for more info. > The main idea of the project is to provide a standard interface to WiMax devices to the Connection/Network managers in the system. The current definition of the interface is available via git at: git://linuxwimax.org/dbus_wimaxapi.git
The state of the project is I am trying to free up the resources/time to get the implementation done, my team has been consumed getting a release of another product over the last couple of months. The current state of the interface definition is the result of a lot of work and input from others on the list, I just happen to be holding the the pen ATM. I would be interested in your comments on the interface and how it maps to your adapter. > Now situation is that user space daemon communicates with kernel drivers via > Netlink interface. > If I understood, dbus is proposed to be interface among user space > applications? > For example, among connection daemon, user interface (CLI) and network > manager applications. yep > > Actually I'm writing connection manager for Fujitsu Wimax devices. It does > communicate with > Fujitsu drivers via Netlink. > Now I have to decide how to communicate among user space applications. Are you talking about control or data plane? The dbus interface is meant for the control plane operations. For data plane the adapters present themselves as ethernet devices. You can see how the driver for the Intel device handles this with the code at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/inaky/compat-wimax.git This is the driver in mainline. You might also be interested in the library for the userspace stack to communicate with the driver at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/inaky/wimax-tools.git > Maybe we have to establish some messaging standard? It would be possible to > have > device-independent Network Manager and other utilities working with all Wimax > devices. > --Dirk _______________________________________________ wimax mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxwimax.org/mailman/listinfo/wimax
