While trying to boot from network on a RISC-V AX25 platform, I saw that the DHCP IP address did not get populated from the DHCP server IP address. The reason for that was simple: CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP was set.
I don't know the history of that option, but it seems to decrease intuitivity levels of the dhcp command rather than improve it.
What I usually would expect is that explicitly set values populate through all layers. So if I set a TFTP file name, it populates. If I set a target IP address, it populates. If I don't set anything, the values get filled in automatically.
This patch set is trying to move us into that direction without breaking people that rely on the existing behavior. With this patch set applied, boards have the option to prefer the 'serverip' environment variable (ax25-ae350 gets moved to it) over the DHCP given address and any value explicitly set on the command line is always preferred.
This hopefully makes the command line a bit more intuitive.
v1 -> v2:
- new patch: net: Prefer command line arguments - remove README entry - improve Kconfig help texts
Alexander Graf (3): net: Prefer command line arguments net: Add option to prefer bootp/dhcp serverip ax25: Switch to CONFIG_BOOTP_PREFER_SERVERIP
cmd/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++ cmd/net.c | 10 ++++++++-- configs/ax25-ae350_defconfig | 1 + include/configs/ax25-ae350.h | 1 - include/net.h | 2 ++ net/bootp.c | 10 ++++++++-- net/net.c | 2 ++ 7 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)