Subject: Re: TFTP'ing RAMdisk at root mount time (updated patch)
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/07/2007 16:05:39
On May 5, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> wrote:
>
>> it seems to me that this is duplicating a lot of what is in libsa.
>> infact, the patch has at least comment to that effect.  i wonder if
>> there is a better way to share this..
>
> I attempted to reuse libsa code from within the kernel, but  
> obviously it
> was not written for that purpose: just tryling to include a .c will
> produce a bunch of dupliacate declarations.

I don't see any pressing need to share the code.  I would prefer  
libsa's TFTP be receive-only and lean, and that the kernel actually  
get nice, plump, featureful TFTP code that can send AND receive.

-- thorpej