[lwip-users] Re: [lwip] Memory leak and queued packets in etharp.c

[leon . woestenberg]

Hello Martin and others,

regarding your RFC.


Your suggestion to simplify the architecture a bit is OK, but adding stuff
in the ARP module is _not_, IMHO.

I think the better approach is to make an Ethernet module that is generic
for all Ethernet drivers and implements the generic functionality of
Ethernet drivers and the Ethernet-dependent stuff of ARP.

Then,  ARP should be made link layer independent (i.e. remove the little
Ethernet dependency that is there) so that the complex functions can
be re-used over different link media.

These changes definitely should be done in a seperate branch as we
want the current branch to stabilize.

Any comments welcomed!

Regards,

Leon.

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