[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/3] net: helper functions
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Fri May 11 23:30:59 CEST 2012
Dear Michael Walle,
In message <201205112322.23891.michael at walle.cc> you wrote:
>
> > > - CONFIG_RAND
> > > - CONFIG_RANDOM_HWADDR
> > >
> > > Any better names?
> >
> > Please make this a single option, CONFIG_RANDOM_MACADDR. It appears
> > nobody else ever needed a random number before, and we can still
> > factor this out if another user pops up after another 12 years.
>
> from net/net.c:
> unsigned int random_port(void)
> {
> return 1024 + (get_timer(0) % 0x4000);
> }
>
> CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY, in net/bootp.c
Well, you patch did not change this code.
And I have to admit that I doubt the increased code size would be
worth such a change, at this place.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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