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)

[Linux-zigbee-devel] Simplifying the 802.15.4 stack

2014-03-07 Thread Phoebe Buckheister
(resent because I forgot CCs at first) 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 fine with RFC compliant stacks like the

[Linux-zigbee-devel] Simplifying the 802.15.4 stack

2014-03-07 Thread Phoebe Buckheister
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 fine with RFC compliant stacks like the one implemented in Contiki. There are,