[oe] [meta-networking][PATCH] 6lowpan-tools: add git version

[Koen Kooi]

Op 2 mei 2013, om 12:21 heeft Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On Monday 01 April 2013 11:31:35 Joe MacDonald wrote:
>> [Re: [oe] [meta-networking][PATCH] 6lowpan-tools: add git version] On 
> 13.03.28 (Thu 21:59) Stefan Schmidt wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 16:32, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>> The 0.3 release was 6 months ago and git HEAD contains fixes to make it
>>>> work with contiki, so build from git instead of backporting all the
>>>> patches.> 
>>> Sounds like a good idea. And not only because one of the patches is
>>> from me ;)
>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
>>>> ---
>>>> 
>>>> .../recipes-support/6lowpan/6lowpan-tools_git.bb     | 20
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>>>> create mode 100644
>>>> meta-networking/recipes-support/6lowpan/6lowpan-tools_git.bb> 
>>> Any special reason why this is named 6lowpan here?
>>> 
>>> 6lowpan normally refers to IPv6 over LoWPAN while the lowpan-tools
>>> do not configure anything regarding IPv6 but the plain LoWPAN which is
>>> the protocol layer below. I would suggest renaming it to lowpan-tools.
>> 
>> I've not used these myself.  Based on what I saw on the project web
>> page, 6lowpan seems like a pretty good name:
>> 
>>   The goal of this project is to create an implementation of 802.15.4
>>   and several protocols which run on top of it (primarily 6LoWPAN) for
>>   Linux.
>> 
>> But a quick look around in my apt-cache turns up lowpan-tools.  Seems
>> like that's what it's also named in Fedora land, so I'm thinking that's
>> probably the right call here, too.
> 
> lowpan-tools was the name we had in OE-Classic as well.
> 
> Koen, would you mind renaming this and sending a v2? Could you also use SRCPV 
> in PV and add SUMMARY and HOMEPAGE at the same time?

I'll have a look at it