[oe] Proposal: Creating meta-networking

[Joe MacDonald]

[[oe]  Proposal: Creating meta-networking] On 12.07.23 (Mon 17:02) Firago Alexey wrote:

> 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.

That's great to hear!  As you can probably tell there's been not much
activity on this front for the last week or so, but I anticipate getting
back at it in the next day or two.  I'll be sure to copy the list on
anything of interest.

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