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SubjectModular 6LoWPAN? (was: Re: 6lowpan: introduce new net/6lowpan directory)
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Hi Alexander,

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Linux Kernel Mailing List
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=2c6bed7cfcd3f594ed9e4d6919fa2ebea2243d19
> Commit: 2c6bed7cfcd3f594ed9e4d6919fa2ebea2243d19
> Parent: 6c53823ae0e10e723131055e1e65dd6a328a228e
> Refname: refs/heads/master
> Author: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: Fri Jul 11 10:24:18 2014 +0200
> Committer: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
> CommitDate: Sat Jul 12 01:53:30 2014 +0200
>
> 6lowpan: introduce new net/6lowpan directory
>
> This patch moves generic code which is used by bluetooth and ieee802154
> 6lowpan to a new net/6lowpan directory. This directory contains generic
> 6LoWPAN code which is shared between bluetooth and ieee802154 MAC-Layer.
>
> This is the IPHC - "IPv6 Header Compression" format at the moment. Which
> is described by RFC 6282 [0]. The BLTE 6LoWPAN draft describes that the
> IPHC is the same format like IEEE 802.15.4, see [1].
>
> Futuremore we can put more code into this directory which is shared
> between BLTE and IEEE 802.15.4 6LoWPAN like RFC 6775 or the routing
> protocol RPL RFC 6550.
>
> To avoid naming conflicts I renamed 6lowpan-y to ieee802154_6lowpan-y
> in net/ieee802154/Makefile.
>
> [0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6282
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6lowpan-btle-12#section-3.2
> [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6775
> [3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6550
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/net/6lowpan/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
> +config 6LOWPAN
> + bool "6LoWPAN Support"

Is there any specific reason 6LOWPAN is bool instead of tristate?
IPV6 can be modular.

> + depends on IPV6
> + ---help---
> + This enables IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Network -
> + "6LoWPAN" which is supported by IEEE 802.15.4 or Bluetooth stacks.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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