Description

With #8841 merged now, we are able to use network interfaces stack independent now. There is however quite some work to do, still. This is the tracking issue for this progress.

Stack adaptation

Currently only GNRC is supported. However, there are a few other stacks that could benefit from it:

• emb6 (@miri64)
• lwip (@miri64, lwip: add support for common netif API #9343)
• openthread (@jia200x or @aabadie)
• OpenWSN (@PeterKietzmann), maybe directly in pkg/openwsn: re-integrate the network stack as a package #8570?

Usage

We should also replace the usage of gnrc_netif in places, where otherwise no direct GNRC-interaction is happening (? mark unclear candidates):

• gcoap (incl. example, @kb2ma)
• uhcpc ? (@kaspar030)
• ifconfig shell command ? (@miri64)
• sntp shell command (@miri64)