From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265948AbUA1M2L (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:28:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265944AbUA1M2L (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:28:11 -0500 Received: from amalthea.dnx.de ([193.108.181.146]:39837 "EHLO amalthea.dnx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265948AbUA1M2H (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:28:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:28:03 +0100 From: Robert Schwebel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: DHCP root-path in 2.6 Message-ID: <20040128122803.GP23652@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, the 2.6 behaviour of the root-path option seems to have changed: in 2.4 it was possible to do this in the DHCP configuration: option root-path "192.168.1.1:/path/to/root"; to specify an NFS server other than the TFTP boot server where the kernel comes from; in 2.6 the code in ipconfig.c which parses this option for the IP address has been removed. Was this done on purpuse or by accident? What's the "correct" way to specify the address? Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hornemannstraße 12, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-28619-0 | Fax: +49-5121-28619-4