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Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 23:19, Russell King wrote:
> "klibc doesnt really matter"
> 
> 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 ?

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