| To: | Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module. |
| From: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:11:36 -0500 |
| Cc: | Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:34:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:10, Robin Holt wrote:
> > The patch at the end of this email makes ipconfig.c work as a loadable
> > module under the 2.5. The diff was taken against the bitkeeper tree
> > changeset 1.1075.
>
> The right fix is to delete ipconfig.c, it has been the right fix for a long
> long time. There are initrd based bootp/dhcp setups that can also then mount
> a root NFS partition and they do *not* need any kernel helper.
The klibc tarball on kernel.org also has ipconfig-type code, waiting for
initramfs early userspace :)
Many have wanted to delete ipconfig.c for a while now...
Jeff
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