On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 13:03, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 at 16:32, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 05:31:30PM +0300, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote:
> >
> > > Legacy TCP stack is bad. Here are some of the known issues:
> > >  * tcp packet from other connection can break a current one
> > >  * tcp send sequence always starts from zero
> > >  * bad tcp options processing
> > >  * strange assumptions on packet size for selective acknowledge
> > >  * tcp interface assumes one of the two scenarios:
> > >      - data downloading from remote host to a board
> > >      - request-response exchange with a small packets
> > >    so it's not possible to upload large amount of data from the
> > >    board to remote host.
> > >  * wget test generate bad tcp stream, test should fail but it passes 
> > > instead
> > >
> > > This series of patches fixes all of the above issues.
> >
> > I know Peter asked on the last one, but I want to ask as well. With lwIP
> > merged, why do we want to add features to the old stack? I can see
> > fixing issues, but not adding new functionality as well. Thanks.
> >
>
> Let's apply this. It has tests and the old stack is still used by a
> lot of boards. At present lwip is only used on one. There is more work
> to do on the new stack, including finishing off the sandbox
> implementation.

I agree with applying the fixes pieces, I do not agree with apply the
HTTP server pieces. This series should actually be split into 3

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