From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman),
"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Enable IP PNP for 2.4.4-ac8
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:52:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27838.989837576@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15103.19205.369749.71491@pizda.ninka.net>
In-Reply-To: <15103.19205.369749.71491@pizda.ninka.net> <20010511162412.A11896@lucon.org> <15100.30085.5209.499946@pizda.ninka.net> <20010511165339.A12289@lucon.org> <m13da9ky7s.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <20010513110707.A11055@lucon.org> <m1y9s1jbml.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <20010513181006.A10057@lucon.org> <m1sni8k9io.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
davem@redhat.com said:
> I hate config options that change how the core of the kernel boot
> makes decisions. Things like "where is root", "what is my network
> address or where do I get that information" have no reasonable
> default. This is why the command line args are there.
If you're told (by rdev because the poxy bootloader on the board can't
pass args to the kernel) that root is /dev/nfs, and you don't have a
command line telling you your IP information, then there _is_ a reasonable
default, and it is to do DHCP.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-14 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-11 23:24 PATCH: Enable IP PNP for 2.4.4-ac8 H . J . Lu
2001-05-11 23:28 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-11 23:53 ` H . J . Lu
2001-05-13 16:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-05-13 18:07 ` H . J . Lu
2001-05-13 19:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-05-14 1:10 ` H . J . Lu
2001-05-14 1:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-05-14 1:42 ` H . J . Lu
2001-05-14 3:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-14 10:52 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-05-14 2:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-14 9:29 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-14 15:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-05-14 16:51 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-14 17:20 ` Russell King
2001-05-15 13:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-05-15 16:05 ` H . J . Lu
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