Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:04:19 +0100
From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: Hartmut Niemann <Hartmut.Niemann@gmx.de>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt: CONFIG_IP_PNP
	must be set
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On 27.10.2008 22:41, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
> The file nfsroot.txt fails to mention, that Kernel level autoconfiguration 
> CONFIG_IP_PNP must be selected in order to be able to even see
> the option "Root file system on NFS" (CONFIG_ROOT_NFS)
> 
> I reordered the section 1 of nfsroot.txt and emphasized the dependency.
> (And I fixed some chapter numbering in section 3).

Technically you neither need autoconfiguration nor CONFIG_ROOT_NFS.

With an initrd/initramfs you can do the whole procedure from userspace.

And AFAIR a few years back those options where on the brink of beeing 
deprecated for just that reason.


Just my 2 cents.


Bis denn

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