[U-Boot] [PATCH] Quietly ignore DHCP Option 28 (Broadcast Address)

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 18:10:36 CEST 2012


Hi Brian,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Brian Rzycki <bmr at freescale.com> wrote:
> Some DHCP servers (notably dnsmasq) always transmit DHCP Option 28,
> Broadcast Address as specified in RFC 2132. Without this patch u-boot
> displays the warning:
>   *** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 28
>
> The patch suppresses the warning and ignores DHCP Option 28. There is
> no environment variable to set the broadcast address into and if for
> some reason u-boot needs the broadcast it can be calculated from
> ipaddr and netmask.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Rzycki <bmr at freescale.com>
> ---

Applied, thanks.

-Joe


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