Re: [PATCH wpan-misc] website: add opentask section in developing

[Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:30:06PM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 06:42:15PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:31:34AM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> > > This patch adds an open task section in developing. So maybe if somebody
> > > has too much time he/she can pick tasks from it and send patches.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  website/index.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/website/index.txt b/website/index.txt
> > > index 2f007d5..9cf2ca3 100644
> > > --- a/website/index.txt
> > > +++ b/website/index.txt
> > > @@ -122,6 +122,29 @@ All patches should be send to <linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org> and based on bluetoot
> > >  For wpan-tools checkout the https://github.com/linux-wpan/wpan-tools[wpan-tools] repository. Also send patches to <linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org> for it with a "wpan-tools" tag.
> > >  The same for https://github.com/linux-wpan/wpan-misc[wpan-misc].
> > >  
> > > +Open Tasks
> > > +~~~~~~~~~~
> > > +
> > > +* There is a lot of missing features for enum definition to some string definition in iwpan which can be lookup in 802.1.54 standard. Words say more than numbers...
> > > +** channel/page to frequency
> > > +** cca modes/opts
> > > +** no aret mode for max_frame_retires -1
> > > +** etc
> > > +* Missing features which wireless has and wpan not. Since we based our implementation on wireless we should sync "good patches" from wireless branch.
> > > +** Something like http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg321088.html[net: nl80211 - pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf()]
> > > +** trace functionality for rdev/driver_ops http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git/tree/net/wireless/rdev-ops.h[rdev-ops.h] and
> > > +http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git/tree/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h[driver-ops.h]
> > 
> > I've started to add some tracing at:
> > 
> >     https://github.com/agx/linux-wpan-next/commits/features/trace
> > 
> > will post the patch here once I've finished the rdev part.
> 
> cool! I really like that, thanks.
> 
> One thing which I see now: You need to care about the byteorder. Don't
> know if there is some magic in the background which do when you say
> it's a __leFOO type. Otherwise you need to call __leFOO_to_cpu(xxx) before,
> for printouts or equals checks. For equal checks with a static value it's

printouts with hex values should also have some filled zero's before.

Example panid format string should be "0x%04x".

- Alex