[PATCH 2/5] net: Move some variables to net-common files

Jerome Forissier jerome.forissier at linaro.org
Tue Dec 9 16:03:11 CET 2025


Hi Andrew,

On 12/8/25 13:52, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> Make some variables available to be used by either the legacy network
> code or LWIP by moving them into the net-common files. This also allowed
> removing a small number of duplicated variables from the LWIP code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Goodbody <andrew.goodbody at linaro.org>
> ---
>  include/net-common.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/net-legacy.h |  9 ---------
>  net/lwip/net-lwip.c  |  5 -----
>  net/net-common.c     | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  net/net.c            | 21 ---------------------
>  5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net-common.h b/include/net-common.h
> index d7a0f7dff7e50527e77419ead9a9ff30deeea545..ea43c72ab06a782c621f61811b9774c1185d88fc 100644
> --- a/include/net-common.h
> +++ b/include/net-common.h
> @@ -132,13 +132,30 @@ static inline void net_set_state(enum net_loop_state state)
>  }
>  
>  extern int		net_restart_wrap;	/* Tried all network devices */
> -extern uchar               *net_rx_packets[PKTBUFSRX]; /* Receive packets */
> +extern uchar		*net_rx_packets[PKTBUFSRX]; /* Receive packets */
> +extern uchar		*net_rx_packet;		/* Current receive packet */
>  extern const u8		net_bcast_ethaddr[ARP_HLEN];	/* Ethernet broadcast address */
> -extern char	net_boot_file_name[1024];/* Boot File name */
>  extern struct in_addr	net_ip;		/* Our    IP addr (0 = unknown) */
>  /* Indicates whether the pxe path prefix / config file was specified in dhcp option */
>  extern char *pxelinux_configfile;
>  
> +/* Our IP addr (0 = unknown) */
> +extern struct in_addr	net_ip;
> +/* Server IP addr (0 = unknown) */
> +extern struct in_addr	net_server_ip;
> +/* Our subnet mask (0=unknown) */
> +extern struct in_addr net_netmask;
> +/* Our gateways IP address */
> +extern struct in_addr net_gateway;
> +/* Boot File name */
> +extern char	net_boot_file_name[1024];
> +/* Indicates whether the file name was specified on the command line */
> +extern bool	net_boot_file_name_explicit;
> +/* The actual transferred size of the bootfile (in bytes) */
> +extern u32	net_boot_file_size;
> +/* Boot file size in blocks as reported by the DHCP server */
> +extern u32	net_boot_file_expected_size_in_blocks;
> +
>  /**
>   * compute_ip_checksum() - Compute IP checksum
>   *

AFAICT the following variables are NOT used by lwIP and should
therefore stay in net-legacy.h/net.c>: net_rx_packet, net_server_ip,
net_netmask, net_gateway, net_boot_file_name_explicit.

Thanks,
-- 
Jerome


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