From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UXqvZ-0006gS-91 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 02 May 2013 12:39:54 +0200 Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 May 2013 03:21:58 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,595,1363158000"; d="scan'208";a="327608947" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.255.12.165]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 May 2013 03:21:58 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Koen Kooi Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 11:21:57 +0100 Message-ID: <1515263.cqA6k5LnsF@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.10.2 (Linux/3.8.0-19-generic; KDE/4.10.2; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20130401153135.GJ10672@windriver.com> References: <1364484753-22122-1-git-send-email-koen@dominion.thruhere.net> <20130328215943.GA6608@novatech.datenfreihafen.org> <20130401153135.GJ10672@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org, Joe MacDonald Subject: Re: [meta-networking][PATCH] 6lowpan-tools: add git version X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 10:39:59 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 > > > --- > > > > > > .../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 -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre