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Subject: Re: creating infrastructure for generic 6LoWPAN branch
From: Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com>
To: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:28:06 +0300
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Hi Alex,

On ti, 2015-04-14 at 13:49 +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was thinking about to create some infrastructure to handle generic
> 6LoWPAN development things, which is shared between bluetooth and
> 802.15.4. I mean everything which is in "net/6lowpan" and things which
> are 6LoWPAN "specific/related/mostly used in 6LoWPAN" and works in L3 and
> upper layers.
> 
> What we should need is some kind of website which contains a ToDo list
> of everything which is outside there and what we currently support. I
> mean a general information site for "6LoWPAN" implementation inside
> Linux kernel.
> 
> Additionally we need some repository which contains some userspace tools
> for handling generic 6LoWPAN things like userspace configuration tool
> for the 6LoWPAN nhc layer. These tools can be used then for all 6LoWPAN
> implementations (BTLE/802.15.4 at the moment). That was one idea which
> was discussed while bringing nhc layer mainline.
> 
> Any ideas where we should host this site, do we really need this or
> any others suggestions?

As Marc suggested, the kernel.org wiki would be a good choice. And all
the userspace tools could be there also.


Cheers,
Jukka