[SLOF] [PATCH 1/7] net-snk: Improve printed text when booting via network

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Dec 18 09:18:41 AEDT 2015


On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 09:18:50PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The output of net-snk is bad in a couple of places:
> 1) The hard-coded "Bootloader 1.6" message is pretty useless
>    for the users (we never changed the version number in the
>    past five years) - so let's change that into printing
>    "Initializing NIC" instead.
> 2) "Requesting IP address via DHCP" is wrong for DHCPv6 since
>    in this case, the net-snk might only request the boot file
>    name via DHCPv6 - so change that to print "information"
>    instead of "IP address"
> 3) The client IPv6 address is never printed out, so do that now,
>    too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
> ---
>  clients/net-snk/app/netapps/netboot.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/clients/net-snk/app/netapps/netboot.c b/clients/net-snk/app/netapps/netboot.c
> index cf20b59..76a4b4f 100644
> --- a/clients/net-snk/app/netapps/netboot.c
> +++ b/clients/net-snk/app/netapps/netboot.c
> @@ -353,7 +353,6 @@ int dhcp(char *ret_buffer, filename_ip_t * fn_ip, unsigned int retries, int flag
>  			set_ipv6_address(fn_ip->fd, 0);
>  			rc = dhcpv6(ret_buffer, fn_ip);
>  			if (rc == 0) {
> -				printf("\n");
>  				memcpy(&fn_ip->own_ip6, get_ipv6_address(), 16);
>  				break;
>  			}
> @@ -388,8 +387,7 @@ netboot(int argc, char *argv[])
>  	int32_t block_size = strtol(argv[5], 0, 10);
>  	uint8_t own_mac[6];
>  
> -	printf("\n");
> -	printf(" Bootloader 1.6 \n");
> +	puts("\n Initializing NIC");
>  	memset(&fn_ip, 0, sizeof(filename_ip_t));
>  
>  	/***********************************************************
> @@ -511,7 +509,7 @@ netboot(int argc, char *argv[])
>  		set_ipv6_address(fn_ip.fd, &obp_tftp_args.ci6addr);
>  		break;
>  	case IP_INIT_DEFAULT:
> -		printf("  Requesting IP address via DHCP: ");
> +		printf("  Requesting information via DHCP: ");
>  		rc = dhcp(ret_buffer, &fn_ip, obp_tftp_args.bootp_retries, 0);
>  		break;
>  	case IP_INIT_NONE:
> @@ -548,10 +546,15 @@ netboot(int argc, char *argv[])
>  		return -101;
>  	}
>  
> -	if(ip_version == 4)
> +	if (ip_version == 4) {
>  		printf("%d.%d.%d.%d\n",
>  			((fn_ip.own_ip >> 24) & 0xFF), ((fn_ip.own_ip >> 16) & 0xFF),
>  			((fn_ip.own_ip >>  8) & 0xFF), ( fn_ip.own_ip        & 0xFF));
> +	} else if (ip_version == 6) {
> +		char ip6_str[40];
> +		ipv6_to_str(fn_ip.own_ip6.addr, ip6_str);
> +		printf("done\n  Using IPv6 address: %s\n", ip6_str);
> +	}

The messages seem a bit gratuitously different in the IPv4 vs. IPv6
case.  Why not just print the address in each case?

>  
>  	if (rc == -2) {
>  		sprintf(buf,

-- 
David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
				| _way_ _around_!
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