From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 09:25:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 09:25:03 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:2346 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 09:24:53 -0400 To: David Woodhouse Cc: "H . J . Lu" , "David S. Miller" , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux kernel Subject: Re: PATCH: Enable IP PNP for 2.4.4-ac8 In-Reply-To: <20010511162412.A11896@lucon.org> <15100.30085.5209.499946@pizda.ninka.net> <20010511165339.A12289@lucon.org> <20010513110707.A11055@lucon.org> <16874.989832587@redhat.com> <8717.989859079@redhat.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 15 May 2001 07:21:59 -0600 In-Reply-To: David Woodhouse's message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 17:51:19 +0100" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse writes: > ebiederm@xmission.com said: > > There wasn't even DHCP support before so yes you did. As you can't > > get the nfs mount point from bootp. > > Wasn't there a default? The Indy behind me seems to try to mount > /tftpboot/172.16.18.195, so I put a filesystem there just to make it happy. > > It's a 2.4.3 kernel. Duh. I forgot about the default path. > > Well I think in the CONFIG_BLK_DEV=n case it might wind up being a > > ramfs or tmpfs image. Something like a simplified version of tar. > > Well, if it stops working and stays broken, I suppose I'll just have to > hack up a built-in command line option. ISTR ARM already has such an option. > > I'd rather it didn't break, though. The clean way to handle it, and I'll take a look it to have root=/dev/nfs (and the rdev equivalent) to set ip=on if it isn't already. The current 2.4.4 behavior of root=/dev/hda3 doing ip autoconfig when the code is compiled into the kernel is just bad. Eric