From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: malware@t-online.de (Michael Mueller) Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module. Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:15:20 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <200303070715.IAA27138@fire.malware.de> References: <1046990052.18158.121.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030306221136.GB26732@gtf.org> <20030306222546.K838@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1046996037.18158.142.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030306231905.M838@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1046996987.17718.144.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Russell King , Jeff Garzik , Robin Holt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Alan Cox Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Alan, you wrote: > > I'd prefer not to have to have thousands of special programs around > > just to be able to boot my machines, especially when it was all in- > > kernel up until this point. > > > > klibc yes, dietlibc with random other garbage in some random filesystem > > which'd need maintaining - no thanks. > > You can build the dhcp client with glibc static into your initrd. Its hardly > magic or special programs or random garbage, and last time I counted it came > to one program. Dunno what the other 999 utilities your dhcp needs are ? Sorry, but I must join Russel here. I have atleast one machine which has a bootloader able to load exactly one file only. There is currently no way to load an initrd. It would need to implement the whole (BOOTP+)TFTP stuff again, just to get the initrd. So I was quite happy linux 2.4 still knows about mounting a NFS root filesystem without user-space help. Michael