From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:02:34 +0000 Message-ID: <20090312180234.GF14491@shareable.org> References: <1236738549-16703-1-git-send-email-yanok@emcraft.com> <20090310211841.388619ca@nehalam> <20090312.070554.96115441.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: mboards@prograde.net, shemminger@vyatta.com, yanok@emcraft.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, s.hauer@pengutronix.de, wd@denx.de, dzu@denx.de To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:50301 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752294AbZCLSCw (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:02:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090312.070554.96115441.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller wrote: > > I'm confused by this. If I'm NFS-booting the board then how do I get > > to those userland tools if I don't have a valid MAC address in place > > to do the root mount? > > Initial ramdisk. Aren't you basically implying that the in-kernel DHCP client and NFS mounting should be removed from the kernel too? I'd agree with that; it's the trend. But it seems pretty harsh to say "you can do DHCP+NFS now, but if you want to set the MAC address too, then you have to reimplement DHCP+NFS a completely different way from scratch first". -- Jamie