> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmytriyenko, Denys
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 9:41 AM
> To: Cooper Jr., Franklin
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [meta-arago] [PATCH] busybox/defconfig: Enable options required
> by LAVA
>
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:58:29PM -0500, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:34:54PM -0500, Cooper Jr., Franklin wrote:
> > > > I don't believe we actively use thttpd any more. It was added way
> > > > back to Classic Arago to support DVSDK and running cgi scripts as root:
> > > >
> > > > http://arago-
> > > > project.org/git/?p=arago.git;a=commit;h=f8bf614c85f435f53a78a0151b
> > > > 239341
> > > > 643f6a13
> > > >
> > > > I'd vote to kill it.
> >
> > > [Franklin] I've wanted to kill it for a while but I was told that
> > > customers frequently asked for a very lightweight web server so we
> > > kept it there to show it off. Other than documentation I don't think
> > > we refer to thttpd in our sdk.
> >
> > So, to summarize - we'll kill separate thttpd and enable httpd in busybox.
> > Also, lighthttpd will stay, as it's used by matrix and is more
> > feature-full
>
> Any comments?
[Franklin] Above is fine
>
>
> > > > > >>>> -CONFIG_IFUPDOWN_UDHCPC_CMD_OPTIONS="-R -n"
> > > > > >>>> +CONFIG_IFUPDOWN_UDHCPC_CMD_OPTIONS="-R -b"
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > > That's still not the same - with -n flag udhcp will time out
> > > > > > soon if not received IP address, while with -b it will go into
> > > > > > background and will wait for IP address there. So, if you add
> > > > > > & at the end of command with -n it will go into background,
> > > > > > but exit soon after, which is not
> > > > the same.
> > > > > >
> > > > > So it sits indefinitely and assigns ip's whenever it can? If so
> > > > > I would actual prefer that. I still need to check.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, it is my understanding that it will keep on pinging the
> > > > server with request- IP periodically in the background, until it gets
> > > > one.
> > > >
> > > > The current behaviour is it tries 3 times and if it can't get an
> > > > IP, it exits with error.
> > > >
> > > > In both cases, once the IP is acquired, the client has to stay in
> > > > the background for renewing the lease. The difference is the initial
> acquision.
> >
> > > [Franklin] This change will cause problems for one of our scripts.
> > > Since we are extremely close to our release I would prefer if we
> > > hold off on making this change. Wed of next week would be prefect if yall
> don't mind waiting.
> > > I'll update the scripts at that point to reflect this change.
> > >
> > > I don't see a command to manually change this behavior to mimic how
> > > it currently works once this change is made. So if such a
> > > command/option does exist then I probably can fix the scripts real quick
> > > to
> make that change.
> >
> > udhcpc should take those flags on the command line as well:
> > http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/udhcp/dhcpc.c#n1147
>
> Franklin, please confirm we can proceed with this change - did you get a
> chance to test your scripts?
[Franklin] My release is out so feel free to make the change.
>
> --
> Denys
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