[En-Nut-Discussion] Possible race condition in DHCP and DHCPKick

Ole Reinhardt ole.reinhardt at embedded-it.de
Sun Feb 12 19:00:01 CET 2012


Hi!

> Isn't it more reliably to redesign dhcp into an active and a passive
> part. The active part can work with post/wait and simply offers a
> current_state variable like dhcpState.
> If DHCP_BOUND or DHCP_TOUT is reached it goes to sleep and wait for a
> restart-event.

Good Idea! Please go ahead! (Or your college :)

I just looked over the code without taking a redesign into account. As
the DHCP part made several problems in the past a redesign might be the
better choice.

bye,

Ole

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