[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/2] package/libwebsockets: add an option to enable lws async dns

[Thomas Devoogdt <thomas@devoogdt.com>]

From: Bart Van Severen <bart.vanseveren@barco.com>

Lws now features optional asynchronous, ie, nonblocking recursive DNS
resolution done on the event loop, enable `-DLWS_WITH_SYS_ASYNC_DNS=1`
at cmake to build it in.

The default libc name resolution is via libc `getaddrinfo()`, which is
blocking, possibly for quite long periods (seconds).  If you are
taking care about latency, but want to create outgoing connections,
you can't tolerate this exception from the rule that everything in
lws is nonblocking.

Lws' asynchronous DNS resolver creates a caching name resolver
that directly queries the configured nameserver itself over UDP,
from the event loop.

https://libwebsockets.org/lws-api-doc-main/html/md_READMEs_2README_8async-dns.html

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Severen <bart.vanseveren@barco.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Devoogdt <thomas.devoogdt@barco.com>
---
 package/libwebsockets/Config.in        | 6 ++++++
 package/libwebsockets/libwebsockets.mk | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package/libwebsockets/Config.in b/package/libwebsockets/Config.in
index 05c132641e..6116cfecb5 100644
--- a/package/libwebsockets/Config.in
+++ b/package/libwebsockets/Config.in
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBWEBSOCKETS_EXT_POLL
 	  unconditionally compiled in for library versions
 	  prior to 3.2.0.
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBWEBSOCKETS_ASYNC_DNS
+	bool "enable async dns support"
+	help
+	  Enable asynchronous DNS resolver that directly queries
+	  the configured nameserver over UDP, from the event loop.
+
 endif
 
 comment "libwebsockets needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library"
diff --git a/package/libwebsockets/libwebsockets.mk b/package/libwebsockets/libwebsockets.mk
index c00c44cac3..e53febfce4 100644
--- a/package/libwebsockets/libwebsockets.mk
+++ b/package/libwebsockets/libwebsockets.mk
@@ -98,4 +98,8 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBWEBSOCKETS_EXT_POLL),y)
 LIBWEBSOCKETS_CONF_OPTS += -DLWS_WITH_EXTERNAL_POLL=ON
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBWEBSOCKETS_ASYNC_DNS),y)
+LIBWEBSOCKETS_CONF_OPTS += -DLWS_WITH_SYS_ASYNC_DNS=ON
+endif
+
 $(eval $(cmake-package))
-- 
2.43.0

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