[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] net: Make TFTP server timeout configurable

Bartlomiej Sieka tur at semihalf.com
Thu Sep 25 08:17:07 CEST 2008


Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Bartek,
> 
> In message <48D33E23.3020502 at semihalf.com> you wrote:
>>> Are seconds an appropriate scale factor for the timeout?
> ...
>> The patch didn't introduce changes in this regard -- TFTP timeouts were
>> defined in seconds originally. The patch makes the timeout behavior
>> configurable, instead of being hardcoded, but the units remain the same:
> 
> But the argument was a perfectly valid one. I am, too, concerned that
> second resolution is not optimal any more (it was as long as we needed
> just one timeout long enough, but this situation will be changed by
> your other patches).
> 
> So please extend that patch to change this into milliseconds as
> discussed before.

OK, v2 of the patches will implement milisecond granularity for initial
TFTP server timeout.

Regards,
Bartlomiej Sieka


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