[gentoo-embedded] mii-tool single distribution

[gentoo-embedded] mii-tool single distribution

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

JFYI: I've made an mii-tool single distribution, which is 
independent from the rest of the net-tools stuff. 

http://www.metux.de/articles/oss/mii-tool-1_9_1_1

This is especially interesting for embedded systems with plenty
of space.


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Re: [gentoo-embedded] mii-tool single distribution

[Natanael Copa]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:06 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> JFYI: I've made an mii-tool single distribution, which is 
> independent from the rest of the net-tools stuff. 
> 
> http://www.metux.de/articles/oss/mii-tool-1_9_1_1
> 
> This is especially interesting for embedded systems with plenty
> of space.

Cool!

It would be even more interesting if you could get it into busybox
and/or get it into portage.

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] mii-tool single distribution

[Ned Ludd]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 14:05 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:06 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > JFYI: I've made an mii-tool single distribution, which is 
> > independent from the rest of the net-tools stuff. 
> > 
> > http://www.metux.de/articles/oss/mii-tool-1_9_1_1
> > 
> > This is especially interesting for embedded systems with plenty
> > of space.

(embedded with plenty of space? kinda funny) If you had plenty of space 
then chances are you would be going the net-tools route.

> 
> Cool!
> 
> It would be even more interesting if you could get it into busybox
> and/or get it into portage.

busybox absolutely seems the ideal place for cut out utils.
mii-tool is a handy one also.


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Re: [gentoo-embedded] mii-tool single distribution

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com> schrieb:

Hi,

> It would be even more interesting if you could get it into busybox

I've already mentioned it on my recent post @busybox
Would be good to have an unified commandlet API, so we could 
build the standalone command and the busybox commandlet from
the same source.

> and/or get it into portage.

Maybe you like to write an ebuild file for it ?


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Re: [gentoo-embedded] mii-tool single distribution

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org> schrieb:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 14:05 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:06 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > JFYI: I've made an mii-tool single distribution, which is 
> > > independent from the rest of the net-tools stuff. 
> > > 
> > > http://www.metux.de/articles/oss/mii-tool-1_9_1_1
> > > 
> > > This is especially interesting for embedded systems with plenty
> > > of space.
> 
> (embedded with plenty of space? kinda funny) If you had plenty of space 
> then chances are you would be going the net-tools route.

ugh, seems there was a bit fallen over when I typed the mail ;-o
Of course: s/plenty/little/;
    
<snip>

> > It would be even more interesting if you could get it into busybox
> > and/or get it into portage.
> 
> busybox absolutely seems the ideal place for cut out utils.
> mii-tool is a handy one also.

It would be good to have an simple API for writing such commandlets,
so that they can be easily built standalone or compiled in into 
larger utils like busybox without changes in the source. Maybe a well 
defined set of preprocessor symbols / macros could easily do the job.

For example:


#include "commandlet.h"

#ifdef CMDLET_MAIN_MODIFIER
CMDLET_MAIN_MODIFIER
#endif
int 
#ifdef CMDLET_MAIN_NAME
    CMDLET_MAIN_NAME
#else
    main
#endif
    (int argc, char** argv);
{

}

 

When built within some shell, we pass -DCMDLET_MAIN_NAME=...
so that the surrounding code (makefile ?) can control how the
main function is named (ie. foo_main() instead of main()).
By defining CMDLET_MAIN_MODIFIER we can add something to 
the function declaration, ie "static".


...


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