From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1StIpf-0005q1-Q3 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:37:56 +0200 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1StIH4-0001nF-MU from Alexey_Firago@mentor.com for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:02:10 -0700 Received: from SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([137.202.0.104]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:02:13 -0700 Received: from [137.202.140.163] (137.202.0.76) by SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com (137.202.0.104) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.289.1; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:02:08 +0100 Message-ID: <500D4B57.3020800@mentor.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:02:15 +0400 From: Firago Alexey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120510 Icedove/10.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jul 2012 13:02:13.0062 (UTC) FILETIME=[60896E60:01CD68D3] X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.11 Subject: Proposal: Creating meta-networking 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: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:37:56 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, On 6/15/2012 8:15 AM, Joe MacDonald wrote: > We've been talking about this on-and-off at Wind River for a while now, > but it now seems like a reasonable time to bring a proposal to the OE > community at large. We're thinking about creating a new layer to house > recipes, etc. for networking packages. > ... > So what does everyone think? Awesome idea? Terrible idea? (Hopefully) > something in between? All feedback is welcome. I think creating software support layer for network related packages is good idea. We've updated some of the recipes from OE Classic mentioned above for our projects at Mentor Graphics. We've been thinking to place these updated recipes in meta-oe layer. But I think now that separate layer like meta-networking would be much more suitable place. Also we've created some new packages like mipv6-umip or multipath-tools that are good candidates for being placed in meta-networking. So, I suggest Mentor Graphics would contribute to meta-networking. -- Alexey Firago**|Software Engineer, Embedded Systems Division, Mentor Graphics