[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux-zigbee: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat,  3 May 2014 19:48:00 +0200, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
> linux-zigbee is a mix of utility tools that implements a 802.15.4 stack
> along with a usefull library for any program that would need to use this
> stack.
> 
> Note that the name is mislead, for licensing reason, this does *NOT*
> implement the ZigBee protocol.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>

FWIW, following a build failure on this package, I did a patch, which I
submitted upstream. Here is the answer I got from upstream (more
precisely Alexander Aring) :

"""
Thanks for the patch, but this userspace software is unmaintained.
You should use wpan-tools [0] which used nl802154, this is available
since kernel 3.19.

It's not recommended to use the stack in earlier kernel versions.
We don't have a stable strategy yet (except extrem imporant fixed,
root exploit, etc. :-))

- Alex

[0] http://wpan.cakelab.org/releases/
"""

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com