netdev - Re: Bluetooth 6LoWPAN and routing

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Date:	Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:55:06 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bluetooth 6LoWPAN and routing

Hi!

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:45:40AM +0300, Jukka Rissanen wrote:
> I have been prototyping with BT 6LoWPAN support (using this draft 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6lowpan-btle-12 as a reference). I 
> sent first version yesterday to linux-bluetooth ml 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/39394
> 
> In this current prototype, after the BT connection is created, the code 
> set ups the virtual network interface, sets the IPv6 LL address for it 
> and creates an IPv6 route to peer (the BT 6LoWPAN connections are 
> point-to-point connections). I am using ip6_route_add() function from 
> net/ipv6/route.c file to do that. Unfortunately that function is not 
> exported so I GPL exported it for this prototype. Will this kind of 
> export accepted in upstream or should I figure out some other way to 
> create the desired route?

I am very confident that a patch making ip6_route_add gpl exported will be
accepted.

Greetings,

  Hannes

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