Re: ?????: [PATCH 10/10] ieee802154: add at86rf230/rf231 spi driver

Maxim Osipov wrote:
Hi Marcel,

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For Bluetooth naming directories 'bluetooth' is logical, as 802.15.1
standard is a less known name, doesn't incorporate latest changes
from Bluetooth, etc.
and so is IEEE 802.15.4 hence we propose using "zigbee" here. Using the
mac80211 has historical reasons and 802.11 is a known name and even used
on product marketing material. IEEE 802.15.4 is not. We are also using
the term "wimax" and not its IEEE numbering.

Actually, ieee802154 is better in this case, because as Dmitry
mentioned, an entire family of standards is implemented on the top of
it, including:

- ZigBee
- 6LoWPAN
- ISA100.11a
- WirelessHART
- and probably something I don't know about
I'll tack on tosmac (the tinyos protocol).
The platforms I support have out of kernel support for a cc2420 (802.15.4) radio
using that protocol. In the embedded sensors field it seems to be
pretty common to use linux nodes as gateways to systems running various realtime
/ light weight OSes.

As Maxim stated there are a lot of protocols out there.

Thank you to Dmitry and co for your work on this project, I'll be following
your progress with interest (and when I have a sec adding support for the cc2420
if no one else does it first ;)

---
Jonathan Cameron


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