Re: reviving OLPC & NetworkManager-0.7 work

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

Hi Dan,

>> I'm working to get the OLPC mesh interface working with new
>> NetworkManager releases and to get suitable code upstream. I would also
>> like to get this backported into Fedora 11 for OLPC's XO-1.5 software
>> build.
>>
>> What is the suggested approach I should take here?
>>
>> Should I work with git master and then backport to 0.7 after? (how
>> usable is that? how much trouble can I expect trying to get it
>> operational on F11 for development purposes?)
>>
>> I'm aware of Sjoerd Simon's previous work, and have looked over the
>> discussion that resulted on the last set of submitted patches.
>>
>> So far I have taken his work, and reworked the patches based on the
>> earlier feedback and recent NM changes, against 0.7 HEAD:
>> git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/NetworkManager branch "olpc"
>> http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/NetworkManager/log/?h=olpc
>>
>> I've also done some basic tests on an XO, it is working.
>>
>> Dan, I'd also appreciate it if you could take a very quick look at the
>> style of the OLPC mesh device implementation:
>> http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/NetworkManager/commit/?h=olpc&id=4b5095bdb843667eba215d15232cdfd5c27f53be
>> There are rough edges and FIXMEs to be handled, but it would be nice to
>> know whether we are on the right lines for an upstream-acceptable
>> implementation or not.
>
> I hesitate to call it NMSettingMesh, because the OLPC-style mesh is
> pretty unique and doesn't map exactly to 802.11s.  Maybe we can make the
> setting work for both, but I'd like some more input from Jouni and
> Johannes before committing to adding that setting to the API.  Need to
> ask them whether the values in that structure make any sense in generic
> 802.11s deployments.  I'm pretty sure dhcp-anycast-address *doesn't*,
> but if it's just one value that's probably OK.

Out of interest is there 802.11s support planned for NM at all in the
near future?

Peter