[Buildroot] Using linux-zigbee ?

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Fri Jul 21 03:53:11 UTC 2017


Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:57:10PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Back in 2014, you added the linux-zigbee package in Buildroot. However,
> this project is no longer maintained, and the replacement project is
> wpan-tools, for which we already have a Buildroot package.
> 
> linux-zigbee has seen no updates since 2014
> (https://sourceforge.net/p/linux-zigbee/linux-zigbee/ci/38f42dbfce9e13629263db3bd3b81f14c69bb733/log/?path=).
> The fork at https://github.com/linux-wpan/lowpan-tools, which only
> contains two additional commits, also from 2014, clearly mentions that
> this is deprecated.
> 
> In addition, linux-zigbee now fails to build with gcc 7.x:
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/29c/29c72bc38042305310576be945c721b2fad95894/build-end.log.

The fix[1] for that (remove -Werror) is quite easy, you don't even need to 
patch the code.

> Do you still use linux-zigbee ? Or could we remove it from Buildroot in
> favor of wpan-tools ?

Buildroot carries packages that are deprecated/abandoned for much longer than 
that (e.g. wireless_tools). The command line interface difference between 
linux-zigbee and wpan-tools is a good enough reason to keep linux-zigbee, IMO.

> Are there other people using linux-zigbee and not wpan-tools ?

I use neither.

[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/791782/

baruch

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