tftp timeouts in 1.4.1

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu May 10 20:24:42 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:20, Alexander Kriegisch wrote:
> > Maybe you can try version 1.4.2.  I met the same problem with 1.4.1, also not 
> > resolved by patching, but after upgrading to 1.4.2 everything about tftp is 
> > OK.
> 
> This is not my favourite option, to be honest. Hundreds of users depend
> on the firmware mod we maintain here, and an upgrade would mean a new
> release and hundreds of firmwares being re-built just because of this
> one issue. I think I am going to wait for another suggestion, but thanks
> for the hint. 1.4.2 or even 1.5.0 are my last resort fallbacks, then. :-)

Well, just copy tftp.c from 1.4.2 to 1.4.1, and build it.

But generally speaking, I plan to keep 1.N.x -> 1.N.x+1 to have only
simple and safe fixes. Trying to make such an upgrage safer for the user.

New stuff & big changes appear at 1.N -> 1.N+1 transition.
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