From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>
Cc: Shane Hathaway <shane@hathawaymix.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP
Date: 05 Feb 2005 16:23:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m165164mn1.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502041755.41288.hpj@urpla.net>
Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net> writes:
> Hi Shane,
>
> Difference: 181 Bytes (padding ignored)
>
> The whole module takes about 9K, compared to dhcp in initrd, which
> takes a few hundred K! Hmm.
And the kinit from the klibc package (A static executable that
does everything the kernel currently does for mounting root
including handling what ipconfig handles it in only 35K (uncompressed).
> That's an interesting question. Please keep me informed on any new
> perceptions in this respect.
>
> May the linux gods indulge on this topic one day or remove the
> ipconfig module completely.
Well that actually is the goal. A major problem is that there
are enough policy issues that the kernel simply cannot get it right,
for all users.
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-05 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-03 4:47 [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP Shane Hathaway
2005-02-03 11:45 ` Herbert Xu
2005-02-03 16:57 ` Shane Hathaway
2005-02-03 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-04 8:06 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-02-04 16:55 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2005-02-04 18:22 ` Richard A Nelson
2005-02-04 19:54 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2005-02-04 20:02 ` Shane Hathaway
2005-02-05 23:23 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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