On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 08:27 -0700, 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 > > > 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.
Is it worth pushing my prototype forward in the interim? Dan > 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 _______________________________________________ wimax mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxwimax.org/mailman/listinfo/wimax
