From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module. Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:25:46 +0000 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030306222546.K838@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1046990052.18158.121.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030306221136.GB26732@gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alan Cox , Robin Holt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030306221136.GB26732@gtf.org>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:11:36PM -0500 Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:11:36PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:34:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:10, Robin Holt wrote: > > > The patch at the end of this email makes ipconfig.c work as a loadable > > > module under the 2.5. The diff was taken against the bitkeeper tree > > > changeset 1.1075. > > > > The right fix is to delete ipconfig.c, it has been the right fix for a long > > long time. There are initrd based bootp/dhcp setups that can also then mount > > a root NFS partition and they do *not* need any kernel helper. > > The klibc tarball on kernel.org also has ipconfig-type code, waiting for > initramfs early userspace :) > > Many have wanted to delete ipconfig.c for a while now... Yep, can't the deletion wait a couple more weeks or so until klibc gets merged? It's not like ipconfig.c is broken currently, is it? -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html