Tue, May 08, 2018 at 05:33:01PM CEST, starnight@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >A Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) is a type of wireless >telecommunication wide area network designed to allow long range >communications at a low bit rate among things (connected objects), such >as sensors operated on a battery. It can be used widely in IoT area. >LoRaWAN, which is one kind of implementation of LPWAN, is a medium >access control (MAC) layer protocol for managing communication between >LPWAN gateways and end-node devices, maintained by the LoRa Alliance. >LoRaWAN™ Specification could be downloaded at: >https://lora-alliance.org/lorawan-for-developers > >However, LoRaWAN is not implemented in Linux kernel right now, so I am >trying to develop it. Here is my repository: >https://github.com/starnight/LoRa/tree/lorawan-ndo/LoRaWAN Link to some out-of-tree module is not enough. If you want anyone to look at this and comment, you need to base your work on top of kernel git (net-next for example) and send a patch/patchset. > >Because it is a kind of network, the ideal usage in an user space >program should be like "socket(PF_LORAWAN, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)" and with >other socket APIs. Therefore, the definitions like AF_LORAWAN, >PF_LORAWAN ..., must be listed in the header files of glibc. >For the driver in kernel space, the definitions also must be listed in >the corresponding Linux socket header files. >Especially, both are for the testing programs. > >Back to the mentioned "LoRaWAN is not implemented in Linux kernel now". >Could or should we add the definitions into corresponding kernel header >files now, if LoRaWAN will be accepted as a subsystem in Linux? > >Thanks, >Jian-Hong Pan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
