From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 15:28:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 15:27:53 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:6183 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 15:27:42 -0400 To: "H . J . Lu" Cc: "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> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 13 May 2001 13:24:18 -0600 In-Reply-To: "H . J . Lu"'s message of "Sun, 13 May 2001 11:07:07 -0700" 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 "H . J . Lu" writes: > It doesn't make any senses. When I specify CONFIG_IP_PNP and > BOOTP/DHCP, I want a kernel with IP config using BOOTP/DHCP. I would > expect IP config is turned for BOOTP/DHCP by default. You can turn > it off by passing "ip=off" to kernel. Did I miss something? Since you have to set the command line anyway ip=dhcp is no extra burden and it lets you use the same kernel to boot of the harddrive etc. > > This same situation exists for 2.2.18 & 2.2.19 as well. > > > > The only way to get long term stability out of this is to write > > a user space client, you can put in a ramdisk. One of these days... > > It doesn't work with diskless machines which don't support ramdisk > during boot. I don't believe that is a real world situation. I boot diskless all of time and supporting a ramdisk is trivial. You just a have a program that slaps a kernel a ramdisk, and some command line arguments into a single image, along with a touch of adapter code to set the kernel parameters correctly and then boot that. Eric