From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 06:53:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 06:53:41 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:32240 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 06:53:25 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB 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> <20010513110707.A11055@lucon.org> <20010513181006.A10057@lucon.org> To: "David S. Miller" Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman), "H . J . Lu" , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux kernel Subject: Re: PATCH: Enable IP PNP for 2.4.4-ac8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:52:56 +0100 Message-ID: <27838.989837576@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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