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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:10:15 +0200
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On 7 March 2003 02:29, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

Anything built static against glibs tends to be 400K+.
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