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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: Hartmut Niemann <Hartmut.Niemann@gmx.de>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt: CONFIG_IP_PNP must be set
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:04:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027220419.GA12618@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810272241.14531.Hartmut.Niemann@gmx.de>

On 27.10.2008 22:41, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
> The file nfsroot.txt fails to mention, that Kernel level autoconfiguration 
> CONFIG_IP_PNP must be selected in order to be able to even see
> the option "Root file system on NFS" (CONFIG_ROOT_NFS)
> 
> I reordered the section 1 of nfsroot.txt and emphasized the dependency.
> (And I fixed some chapter numbering in section 3).

Technically you neither need autoconfiguration nor CONFIG_ROOT_NFS.

With an initrd/initramfs you can do the whole procedure from userspace.

And AFAIR a few years back those options where on the brink of beeing 
deprecated for just that reason.


Just my 2 cents.




Bis denn

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-27 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-25 21:47 nfsroot.txt in 2.4.36.7 and 2.6.27.1, Configure.help in 2.4.36.7: missing precondition CONFIG_IP_PNP Hartmut Niemann
2008-10-26  3:27 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-10-26 12:06   ` Hartmut Niemann
2008-10-27  5:24 ` Simon Horman
2008-10-27 21:41   ` [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt: CONFIG_IP_PNP must be set Hartmut Niemann
2008-10-27 22:04     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]

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