[PATCH v2 4/6] dhcpcd: Remove unused dhcpcd shell command

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Thu May 3 07:27:22 UTC 2018


On 03/05/2018 17:20, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 03/05/18 09:13, Chris Johns wrote:
>> On 03/05/2018 16:49, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> -extern rtems_shell_cmd_t rtems_shell_DHCPCD_Command;
>> -1. I am not bothering to review the remainder of this patch.
>>
>> This command is useful. I have used it in the past when working with dhcpd. It
>> is like running a daemon on the command in Unix to debug a problem. This change
>> hides that.
> 
> This command is not useful.

It is for debugging.

Doing this makes debugging harder. In time we may solve the global issue however
until then it is still useful.

> I guess it worked only by accident.

User beware.

> The dhcpcd uses
> several global variables which are not cleaned up or properly re-initialized.

A patch to let it only be used once would fix that.

It works on a first pass time and if debugging we have no ^C so it does not matter.

> The dhcpcd command is not supposed to return to the caller. A running dhcpcd
> client could be controlled via a special socket, but his is not properly
> implemented/ported to RTEMS.

Just like FreeBSD you disable the interface in rc.conf and then run it by hand.

Chris




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