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Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
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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.

Indeed probably the biggest distro using nfs root (LTSP) doesn't use ipconfig
even on 2.4. 

DaveM can you just remove the thing. See http://www.ltsp.org for initrds that
don't need it in
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