Re: [lwip-users] Patch for bug 23119

[Ken Smith]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote:
>>
>> ... it works.  For relatively large changes like this, where concurrency
>> issues might arise if something is overlooked, perhaps more explicit
>> upgrade instructions are in order.  Or have I missed a key piece of
>> documentation?
>
> No you haven't, but unfortunately, documentation is rare. You are welcome to
> write something and share it, though!
>
> As to the ethernetif-upgrade: the file CHANGELOG in the source directory
> shows a *lot* of changes to 1.3.0, but if you don't want to read them all,
> you could compare the 2 ethernetif.c files from 1.1.0 and 1.3.0 and see that
> there is not that much difference.
>
> After all, the stack doesn't get more unstable than 1.1.0 if you don't
> upgrade you ethernetif (aside from changed function, I think it was
> link_output); you simply don't get the concurrency problem fixed. If that
> didn't show up when you used 1.1.0, it won't show up now, either ;-=

All fair commentary.  Thanks again for helping me work through this.

   Kind regards,
   Ken