Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:01:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:01:09 -0500 Received: from havoc.daloft.com ([64.213.145.173]:62133 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:01:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:11:36 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik To: Alan Cox Cc: Robin Holt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module. Message-ID: <20030306221136.GB26732@gtf.org> References: <1046990052.18158.121.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1046990052.18158.121.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 919 Lines: 24 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... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/