[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] net: Make TFTP server timeout configurable

Bartlomiej Sieka
2008-09-25T06:17:07Z

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Bartek,
>
> In message <48D33E23.3020502@semihalf.com> you wrote:
>>> Are seconds an appropriate scale factor for the timeout?
> ...
>> The patch didn't introduce changes in this regard -- TFTP timeouts were
>> defined in seconds originally. The patch makes the timeout behavior
>> configurable, instead of being hardcoded, but the units remain the same:
>
> But the argument was a perfectly valid one. I am, too, concerned that
> second resolution is not optimal any more (it was as long as we needed
> just one timeout long enough, but this situation will be changed by
> your other patches).
>
> So please extend that patch to change this into milliseconds as
> discussed before.

OK, v2 of the patches will implement milisecond granularity for initial
TFTP server timeout.

Regards,
Bartlomiej Sieka