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Re: vnc and lwip
On Fri, 28 May 2004 20:16:52 +0100
Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com> wrote:
> Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:33:55PM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote:
> >
> >>Since lwip has a network.h header for compatibility with the other stacks
> >>this can be applied.Will do so if nobody objects.
>
> Excuse my unfamiliarity but shouldn't lwip use the "standard" header
> locations for its API headers? Or is this something in the upstream main
> lwip distribution.
lwip uses its own header names because it started out as a tcp/ip library to
be linked with specific apps not as a a 'standard' tpc/sockets/dns stack.
The sockets code was only added some time after it was already usable.
But with it now being in ecos there's more sense in making it support a
standard interface because now porting to ecos/lwip makes sense too, as
opposed to'building/hacking lwip into my project'.
When/if the bsd stacks won't need network.h lwip can be modified to to use
standard headers. Right now I want to keep the lwip vs bsd_net ifdefs as few
as possible.
Jani