netdev - RE: [PATCH] [resend]The kernel gets no IP from some DHCP servers, 2.6.24

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Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:25:10 +0100
From:	"Wappler Marcel" <Marcel.Wappler@...dgeco.net>
To:	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	"Patrick McHardy" <kaber@...sh.net>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<davem@...emloft.net>, <ebiederman@...i.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] [resend]The kernel gets no IP from some DHCP servers, 2.6.24

-----Original Message-----
>> In my opinion it is necessary to distinguish between INADDR_ANY and 
>> the ZERO address which ist requested to be in the DHCPDISCOVER packet.
>Just delete the lines and the address will be zero because of earlier memset().

>From my personal point of view it is important to document the requirement of the
two addresses to be 0.0.0.0 either through the code itself or through a comment
which states clear the side effect of memset'ting the structure. 

Both roads lead to Rome :-)

Marcel
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Marcel Wappler
Bridgeco AG
CH-8600 Dübendorf
Switzerland
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