[PATCH v2 17/29] net: bootp: Fall back to BOOTP from DHCP when unit testing

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sun Oct 15 21:20:00 CEST 2023


On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 08:39:50AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> 
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2023 at 15:27, Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/14/23 17:22, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Am 14. Oktober 2023 22:47:53 MESZ schrieb Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>:
> > >> If we sent a DHCP packet and get a BOOTP response from the server, we
> > >> shouldn't try to send a DHCPREQUEST packet, since it won't be DHCPACKed.
> > >> Transition straight to BIND. This is only enabled for UNIT_TEST to avoid
> > >> bloat, since I suspect the number of BOOTP servers in the wild is
> > >> vanishingly small.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > >> ---
> > >>
> > >> (no changes since v1)
> > >>
> > >> net/bootp.c | 6 ++++++
> > >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/net/bootp.c b/net/bootp.c
> > >> index 2053cce88c6..7b0f45e18a9 100644
> > >> --- a/net/bootp.c
> > >> +++ b/net/bootp.c
> > >> @@ -1073,6 +1073,11 @@ static void dhcp_handler(uchar *pkt, unsigned dest, struct in_addr sip,
> > >>                          CONFIG_SYS_BOOTFILE_PREFIX,
> > >>                          strlen(CONFIG_SYS_BOOTFILE_PREFIX)) == 0) {
> > >> #endif       /* CONFIG_SYS_BOOTFILE_PREFIX */
> > >> +                    if (CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(UNIT_TEST) &&
> > >> +                        dhcp_message_type((u8 *)bp->bp_vend) == -1) {
> > >
> > > As written before, please, do not add unit test specific code paths.
> >
> > While it is convenient for tests to implement a BOOTP server, there are
> > effectively no BOOTP servers in the wild. However, BOOTP is commonly enabled
> > in U-Boot. In an effort to avoid growing most U-Boots for testing purposes,
> > I enabled this path just for unit tests. That said, only 6 boards enable SPL_ETH,
> > so maybe it is not too bad.
> 
> Yes, also if you are using networking in SPL, you can expect it to add
> quite a bit to code size.

And so long as this doesn't lead to overflowing them, OK.  But size is
not infinite there, am335x_evm and am43xx_hs_evm are both a bit
constrained.

-- 
Tom
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