Hi Dirk,
Dirk Brandewie wrote:
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
ok, that's exactly what I imagined.
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.
I will review your work and try to test in my project.
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:
I'm about control. I referenced already to Intel drivers.
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
I'm using libwimall already. The main issue is how to talk between CLI
utility and connection daemon, also I think about future, about Network
Manager's found in most Linux OS.
I doubt about dbus, because it's fat a bit :) But perhaps I have to
study your project.
Darius A.
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
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