Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.

Alan Cox
2003-03-06T23:14:06Z

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 23:19, Russell King wrote:
> "klibc doesnt really matter"
>
> I'd prefer not to have to have thousands of special programs around
> just to be able to boot my machines, especially when it was all in-
> kernel up until this point.
>
> klibc yes, dietlibc with random other garbage in some random filesystem
> which'd need maintaining - no thanks.

You can build the dhcp client with glibc static into your initrd. Its hardly
magic or special programs or random garbage, and last time I counted it came
to one program. Dunno what the other 999 utilities your dhcp needs are ?