[openbeosnetteam] Netstack status...

Well, finally the CVS tree is updated correctly and is building well on my
machine. I have a few more minor tweaks to come (mainly removing debug code)
and then it'll be time to look at the next round of additions.

However, the code is running and doesn't seem to crash (famous last words no
doubt)!

My thanks to Marcus for his efforts at some very unfriendly hour of the
morning this morning helping me get the area_malloc stuff in and so allowing
us to track the source of the problem!  I really must try to get to bed
before 4am one night this week!

So, my next question is how many people have actually tried building this?
Come on now, don't be shy.

Why don't we move to a kernel only codebase? Well, I'd like to, but to be
honest the userland version is much better for debugging and as long as we
keep it in line with the other one allows quicker bug fixes than using the
kernel only version. At some point soon (once we have more functionality in
the tree) I think we should swap to being kernel be default and userland by
specifying the build. That will be just a little way away yet.

Also I have a question - who wants to do some coding?! No, don't worry, it's
not something that only folks who can spout RFC821 need get involved in. I
think (and feel free to object here) that we should have a function
net_log_error(). This should by default log errors into syslog and perhaps
by build time switches dump them to serial debugging or just the command
line if we're userland.

The prototype should go into include/net_misc.h and the code into
net_server/misc.c. I won't get involved too much by even suggesting what it
should/shouldn't do. Perhaps people feel I get too involved? Don't know.
Anyway, it's just a straight be coding project!

So, any volunteers for this?

david

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