Re: [meta-networking][PATCH] 6lowpan-tools: add git version

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Monday 01 April 2013 11:31:35 Joe MacDonald wrote:
> [Re: [oe] [meta-networking][PATCH] 6lowpan-tools: add git version] On 
13.03.28 (Thu 21:59) Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 16:32, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > > The 0.3 release was 6 months ago and git HEAD contains fixes to make it
> > > work with contiki, so build from git instead of backporting all the
> > > patches.> 
> > Sounds like a good idea. And not only because one of the patches is
> > from me ;)
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  .../recipes-support/6lowpan/6lowpan-tools_git.bb     | 20
> > >  ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644
> > >  meta-networking/recipes-support/6lowpan/6lowpan-tools_git.bb> 
> > Any special reason why this is named 6lowpan here?
> > 
> > 6lowpan normally refers to IPv6 over LoWPAN while the lowpan-tools
> > do not configure anything regarding IPv6 but the plain LoWPAN which is
> > the protocol layer below. I would suggest renaming it to lowpan-tools.
> 
> I've not used these myself.  Based on what I saw on the project web
> page, 6lowpan seems like a pretty good name:
> 
>    The goal of this project is to create an implementation of 802.15.4
>    and several protocols which run on top of it (primarily 6LoWPAN) for
>    Linux.
> 
> But a quick look around in my apt-cache turns up lowpan-tools.  Seems
> like that's what it's also named in Fedora land, so I'm thinking that's
> probably the right call here, too.

lowpan-tools was the name we had in OE-Classic as well.

Koen, would you mind renaming this and sending a v2? Could you also use SRCPV 
in PV and add SUMMARY and HOMEPAGE at the same time?

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre