TODO: Rewrite network stack.

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 03:22:40PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:55:12PM +0400, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have inspected TODO file from barebox repo. Here is a quote:
> > 
> >   [ ] Rewrite network stack. The one-loop-for-all-protocols stack is just too
> >       ugly and big and uses thousands of global variables. Identify common
> >       functions and make a loop per network protocol
> > 
> > There is no much tiny TCP/IP stack candidates for porting to barebox.
> > The most notable is lwIP (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/).
> > 
> > See "project that use lwIP" list here: http://lwip.wikia.com/wiki/Projects_that_use_lwIP
> > 
> > lwip code is BSD-licensed. Is it possible to use lwip code in barebox?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Best regards,
> >   Antony Pavlov
> > 
> > P.S. Anyway TODO file from barebox repo is outdated (last change Jul 22 2010).
> 
> Indeed. Maybe we should add the following item to it.
> 
> Sascha
> 
> diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
> index 6350799..59fdade 100644
> --- a/TODO
> +++ b/TODO
> @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ TODO
>      devices should be represented as a hierarchical tree in /dev
>  [ ] Work out, how to mount driver on PCI devices. The mechanism should be
>      transparent to the driver code.
> +[ ] remove this file. It doesn't contain much useful information.
I took this patch, removed the file and wanted to move this entry below
DONE. This resulted in a git conflict. Please advise.

Uwe

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