[PATCH 0/8] Network update DHCP/BOOTP

[Sascha Hauer]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 06:27:13AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> HI,
> 
> 	the following patch series update the network dhcp and bootp support
> 	to support options 66, 150, 61, 77, 97
> 
> 	this will also help to add pxe boot support later
> 
> The following changes since commit 485cee59cf64b5019c5a294074007b93509b83e0:
> 
>   Merge branch 'work/imx51-babbage-clk' into next (2012-03-23 21:22:14 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
> 
>   git://git.jcrosoft.org/barebox.git net
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 2e991cac2e1444def3d27ec06fd10724fe3e19ba:
> 
>   defaultenv: add support of etherboot_file (2012-03-30 12:40:18 +0800)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD (8):
>       net: dhcp: reset env variable before do a dhcp request
>       net: dhcp: add support of tftp name server
>       net: dhcp: add support of tftp server ip or Etherboot file (option 150)
>       net: dhcp: allow to set transmitted client id
>       net: dhcp: allow to set transmitted client uuid
>       net: dhcp: allow to set transmitted user class
>       net: dns: export resolved ip to var resolved_ip
>       defaultenv: add support of etherboot_file

Given the current poor state of net/dhcp.c I'm not very willing to
accept feature patches to this. I think what we need is a struct
dhcp_opt:

struct dhcp_opt {
	unsigned char option;
	const char *barebox_var_name;
#define DHCP_OPT_IP		1
#define DHCP_OPT_STRING		2
	unsigned long flags;
};

With this we could loop around all opts and
- unset existing environment variables before a dhcp request
- construct the request packet
- parse response

Also nice to have are defines for the different dhcp options and a
consistent dhcp_ prefix for all environment variables modified by the
dhcp command.

Sascha

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