[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux-zigbee: new package

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 21:01:02 UTC 2016


> On Aug 9, 2016, at 1:46 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat,  3 May 2014 19:48:00 +0200, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
>> linux-zigbee is a mix of utility tools that implements a 802.15.4 stack
>> along with a usefull library for any program that would need to use this
>> stack.
>> 
>> Note that the name is mislead, for licensing reason, this does *NOT*
>> implement the ZigBee protocol.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
> 
> FWIW, following a build failure on this package, I did a patch, which I
> submitted upstream. Here is the answer I got from upstream (more
> precisely Alexander Aring) :
> 
> """
> Thanks for the patch, but this userspace software is unmaintained.
> You should use wpan-tools [0] which used nl802154, this is available
> since kernel 3.19.
> 
> It's not recommended to use the stack in earlier kernel versions.
> We don't have a stable strategy yet (except extrem imporant fixed,
> root exploit, etc. :-))

This is quite valuable feedback I believe. Helps you to decide
if you want to add a new package which is unmaintained and take
up maintaining it.

> 
> - Alex
> 
> [0] http://wpan.cakelab.org/releases/
> """
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
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