From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:48:23 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Using linux-zigbee ? In-Reply-To: <20170721035311.lj4g7b4fugewmr55@tarshish> References: <20170720225710.076f8086@windsurf> <20170721035311.lj4g7b4fugewmr55@tarshish> Message-ID: <20170721084823.0fca155c@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:53:11 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote: > > In addition, linux-zigbee now fails to build with gcc 7.x: > > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/29c/29c72bc38042305310576be945c721b2fad95894/build-end.log. > > The fix[1] for that (remove -Werror) is quite easy, you don't even need to > patch the code. Ah, yes, I missed the fact that it was a warning-turned-into-an-error class of problem. Thanks for spotting this! > > Do you still use linux-zigbee ? Or could we remove it from Buildroot in > > favor of wpan-tools ? > > Buildroot carries packages that are deprecated/abandoned for much longer than > that (e.g. wireless_tools). The command line interface difference between > linux-zigbee and wpan-tools is a good enough reason to keep linux-zigbee, IMO. True, but at some point, we'll have to get rid of some old unmaintained packages. Perhaps we should at least update the help text of linux-zigbee to make it clear it shouldn't be used for new projects ? Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com