From: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: alex.aring@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Linux-zigbee-devel] [PATCH] 6lowpan: handle only real link-local addresses
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 07:24:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130814102436.GJ21958@ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130813.151230.1608414279292576217.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> You're submitting 7 patches, one set is numbered 1-6 and this
> one has no number.
The unnumbered patch is independent from the rest. But yes, he
shouldn't have sent it in the same thread.
To provide a bit of context, 6LoWPAN support in the kernel is
currently in an embarrassingly badly broken state. On a good day,
you can get ping to an RFC-compliant peer to work, sometimes even
both ways, but only as long as you use link-local addresses and
keep the payload small. Beyond that, it's all bugland.
Alexander thus started to fix the 6LoWPAN issues he and others,
myself included, had bumped into. It's a lot of changes for a
relatively small file (6lowpan.c) and later on he'll have at
least one more batch for fragmentation, but when all that is
done, we'll finally have a stack that can actually do real work.
Alexander, since you'll have to re-submit anyway, you may want to
add a
Reviewed-by: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
to all the patches.
- Werner
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-14 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-13 21:53 [PATCH] 6lowpan: handle only real link-local addresses Alexander Aring
2013-08-13 21:53 ` [PATCH 0/6] 6lowpan: uncompress of addresses fix Alexander Aring
[not found] ` <1376430813-30982-1-git-send-email-alex.aring-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-13 21:53 ` [PATCH 1/6] 6lowpan: init ipv6hdr buffer to zero Alexander Aring
2013-08-13 21:53 ` [PATCH 2/6] 6lowpan: Fix fragmentation with link-local compressed addresses Alexander Aring
2013-08-13 21:53 ` [PATCH 3/6] 6lowpan: introduce lowpan_fetch_skb function Alexander Aring
2013-08-13 21:53 ` [PATCH 5/6] 6lowpan: lowpan_uncompress_addr with address_mode Alexander Aring
2013-08-13 21:53 ` [PATCH 4/6] 6lowpan: add function to uncompress multicast addr Alexander Aring
2013-08-13 21:53 ` [PATCH 6/6] 6lowpan: handle context based source address Alexander Aring
2013-08-13 22:12 ` [PATCH] 6lowpan: handle only real link-local addresses David Miller
2013-08-14 10:24 ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
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