[PATCH 1/3] net: Add tftp command which uses the new tftp code

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 09:34:12PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 19:22 Thu 27 Sep     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Traditionally tftp is a command of its own. Since we can
> > mount tftp as a filesystem we have duplicated the tftp code, the old
> > code is used by the tftp command, the new by the filesystem support.
> > This adds a tftp command based on the filesystem support to preserve
> > backward compatibility. This allows us to remove the old tftp support
> > in the next step.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  commands/Kconfig  |    8 +++++
> >  commands/Makefile |    1 +
> >  commands/tftp.c   |  103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> why this is c code?
> 
> why not simply do it via script

Because c code is robust, cleans up after itself when the user presses
ctrl-c and is present also when the environment contains garbage because
of broken dependencies.

Sascha

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