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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:05:31 -0700
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: Enable IP PNP for 2.4.4-ac8
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> 
> The clean way to handle it, and I'll take a look it to have
> root=/dev/nfs (and the rdev equivalent) to set ip=on if it isn't

Yes.

> already.  The current 2.4.4 behavior of root=/dev/hda3 doing ip
> autoconfig when the code is compiled into the kernel is just bad.

Agreed.


H.J.