FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: Quiet List

["David Enderson" <DEnderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Axel,

Thanks for your response.

There was talk earlier on this list of a possible large reworking of the
core networking code.  Do you know whether this is just talk, or
something that is planned before R1?  I have a little more work
necessary before it is ready to integrate with the system.  I guess I'm
trying to figure out how urgently my DHCP work is needed to be finished.

There was some discussion about whether the DHCP client needs to be a
kernel module or a non-kernel networking module.  Was that ever
resolved?  Are the APIs in place for me to integrate it as a module if I
was finished?  Philippe said something about needing to write some
module or API before I could integrate the DHCP client.  His direct
quote on October 22 was:

>BTW, maybe it's a good occasion to write a kernel module
>exporting the basic (without DNS resolver support at start)
>sockets API to kernelland. That would help network-related
>drivers (netblock devices?) and kernel add-ons (network
>filesystems) but also porting your DHCP_client code...

Does anyone have comments about this?  Am I understanding correctly that
this still needs to be done?

--David