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["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

"David Enderson" <DEnderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Well last thing I heard from Michael Lotz is that he got our networking 
kit working natively. So it would definitely be nice to have DHCP as 
well - but an urgent need looks probably different, too. That would 
arise when we are going for a release :-)
Anyway, if I'd be the team leader (which I am not), I would probably go 
for the FreeBSD port, but since it's oh so quiet here, I guess we're 
better off keeping what we have for now.

> 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?

I've no idea about that, but I think that a userspace application is 
definitely okay for now.

Bye,
   Axel.