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

[Maxime Hadjinlian]

Hi Thomas, all

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 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.
Which is exactly my situation, thanks for the feedback though. I'll
keep it in mind when upgrading the kernel that we are using.
>
> Thomas
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> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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