Re: [PATCH bluetooth-next 0/3] net: 6lowpan: simplify lookup by nhc id

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Hi Stefan,

>>>>> this patch series removes the rb data structure for looking up a nhc by
>>>>> nhc id. Instead we using the existing nexthdr lookup array by iterating
>>>>> over it and find the right nhc by nhc id. It's simply not worth it to
>>>>> use such complex handling for such small amount of nhc. As we only
>>>>> support nhc ids which fits into 1 byte and there are not two byte nhc
>>>>> ids values specified yet, we let the nhc layer only handle 1 byte values.
>>>>> If there is the need for 2 byte nhc values we can add support for it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> - Alex
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alexander Aring (3):
>>>>> net: 6lowpan: remove const from scalars
>>>>> net: 6lowpan: use array for find nhc id
>>>>> net: 6lowpan: constify lowpan_nhc structures
>>>> 
>>>> Marcel, Luiz, are you still picking up generic 6lowpan patches or only
>>>> the ones for bluetooth?
>>>> 
>>>> These three have been around for over a month and acked by me and Jukka,
>>>> but I can't find them anywhere in bluetooth-next or Linus tree.
>>>> 
>>>> If 6lowpan is of less concern for you I can route them through my
>>>> ieee80254 tree as well.
>>> 
>>> Up to you, I was not aware they normally were merged thru
>>> bluetooth-next but I would be fine merging those as well.
>> 
>> If you and Marcel don't mind I would like to switch this over to being
>> merged through ieee802154. Mostly because 6lowpan is vital for the 15.4
>> work we have.
>> 
>> With Jukka stepping down from co-maintaining this part (thanks a lot for
>> your work!) this will most likely be reviewed by Alex and me anyway.
>> 
>> We still need to ensure that patches are hitting wpan as well as
>> bluetooth mailing list, but the MAINTAINERS file handles this already.
>> 
>> Let me know if you are unhappy with the switch. If not I will start with
>> merging these three as well as the MAINTAINERS update from Jukka.
> 
> I have no problem with that.

go for it. Lets just keep the mailing list in MAINTAINERS file so we are aware of patches in this area.

Regards

Marcel




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