[lwip-devel] SNMP improvements

[Freddie Chopin]

First of all, hello - this is my first post to this list! I've been 
using lwip for just a few months and I definetely DO NOT consider myself 
to be skilled with it or TCP/IP in general.

Anyway...

Lately I'm playing with SNMP in lwip and while it works it has some 
strange details inside... Yesterday I've sent a patch with some minor 
improvement to sysDescr field, making it really const as it should be.

http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?8220

This is just a start, as there are many other places where const would 
be nice (one of them is sysobjid, for which I have a patch too), which 
generally reduces RAM usage considerably.

I have some nice ideas for improvements, code rework (which would make 
it more object-oriented - MUCH shorter and MUCH more "localized"), API 
changes to make it easier to use etc. However I don't know whether such 
patches would be accepted, as these would break current API and lwip 
seems a bit abandoned lately (there are lots of patches sitting on the 
page, there were no commits lately etc.)... On the other hand SNMP is 
probably not the most used feature of lwip and it could really benefit 
from some (API-breaking) improvements...

Any opinions? (;

Regards,
FCh