Zigbee stack on Linux (mainline kernel)?

Question

I'm planning to use Zigbee on a Linux embedded computer.

Is there such thing as a Zigbee Linux stack ? (similar to a TCP/IP stack) Is it included in mainline kernel ?

Ideally, I would like to have a minimalist USB Zigbee RF (802.15.4) transceiver connected to an embedded computer and most of the work would be done in this Zigbee software stack.

Does such a thing exist ?

Answer 1

Yes, this is described at Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt. What you are looking for is most likely this excerpt:

Socket API

int sd = socket(PF_IEEE802154, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);

.....

The address family, socket addresses etc. are defined in the include/net/af_ieee802154.h header or in the special header in the userspace package (see either http://wpan.cakelab.org/ or the git tree at https://github.com/linux-wpan/wpan-tools).

One can use SOCK_RAW for passing raw data towards device xmit function. YMMV.

See also this question.