Hi John
I have updated my lwIP package with the final 1.3.1 release. There are
changes in two areas, and I wonder how to tackle them:
1. SLIP polling support
I changed the SLIP netif to support polling, so it does not need to run
in it's own thread when resources are low. I submitted the patch to lwip
quite a bit of time ago, but there were no reactions:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?26397
I could of course remove my changes, but then the eCos package will not
support SLIP in the simple/polled mode. So I'd also have to change some
of the glue code. I would rather like to keep SLIP polling support in.
2. PPP
There are quite a bit of changes I made to the PPP code:
* put code more in line with lwip coding style (mostly renaming)
* added a simple chat component, to connect a modem to the peer
* added support for PPP dumps (wireshark)
* added polling support
* added an eCos testcase (only for simple/polled mode)
If I restore the original PPP code as suggested, I will also have to
adapt the glue code and configuration. I would remove the testcase and
generally mark PPP as experimental. The other way would be to try and
clean PPP more up, and get the changes commited to lwip, but then we
would have to wait for another release.
What's your suggestion?
Simon
