[PATCH 3/5] net: tftp: add IPv6 support for tftpboot

[Ramon Fried]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 2:30 PM Vyacheslav Mitrofanov V
<v.v.mitrofanov at yadro.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2022-08-19 at 14:00 +0300, Ramon Fried wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:10 AM Viacheslav Mitrofanov
> > <v.v.mitrofanov at yadro.com> wrote:
> > > The command tftpboot uses IPv4 by default, to use IPv6 instead add
> > > -ipv6
> > > as the last argument. All other tftpboot features and parameters
> > > are left
> > > the same.
> > >
> > In my opinion, we should be able to detect if a user has provided or
> > set an IPv6 server IP address and only use IPv6 then.
> I tried to save tftboot semantics. I mean if we set -ipv6 option the
> command will check server address in args if it is empty check
> environmental variable and if it is not set then terminate it. It works
> the same way as it works now. If I didn't get you, please, clarify it a
> little bit more.
> Thanks!
What I meant is that if you can distinguish IPv6 address from just
parsing the address itself.
Perhaps the -ipv6 is redundant.