[lwip-devel] Desiderata for 2.2.0: (2) add posixlib

[Renzo Davoli]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 06:43:02PM +0100, Joan Lledó via lwip-devel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> El 8/1/23 a les 19:10, Renzo Davoli ha escrit:
> > Again my approach was to be as conservative as possible to avoid
> > side effects for other architectures/projects.
> > 
> > Your "port" patch for Debian adds a specific lwipopts.h file and two
> > 'external headers': posix/inet.h, posix/sockets.h
> > Your lwipopts.h is significantly different from that in 
> > contrib/port/unix/lib
> > and the include files are not in the lwip source tree, thus the idea to add
> > a specific linux lib directory under the unix port.
> > 
> > Maybe you have a better view and knowledge of the projects using
> > the unix/lib code and you can see that it is safe to merge/update the code 
> > of
> > the unix library.
> > 
> > I vote for a new library, it is a surely safe choice. If the name linuxlib 
> > is
> > misleading we can call it debianlib or posixlib (one main point
> > is that the new lib uses posix compatible socket definitions).
> > The code needed for the new lib is just:
> > CMakeLists + lwipopts.h + posix/inet.h + posix/sockets.h
> > 
> 
> posixlib sounds good to me. I forgot to mention: I don't mind changing the
> license to BSD to make the patches upstream.

In the new patch here attached:
* the name of the lib is "posixlib"
* the license of the three header files is BSD

Regards,

        renzo

2-posixlib.patch
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