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

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:01:02 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:

> > 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.

On the other, not everyone may be able to use the latest nl802154
stack, since it's available only since 3.19. So some people might be
stuck using the older userspace tools.

Thomas
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