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To: Craig <penguin@wombat.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4: BOOTPC /proc info.
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 04 Apr 2002 01:35:02 +0200
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Craig <penguin@wombat.ca> writes:

> Marcelo,
>   This patch is against 2.4.19-pre5, please apply.

This is unbelievable ugly. Can't you just save the packet as a binary
buffer, output it as binary in /proc and parse and format it in user space ?

Better would be to not use bootpc at all in kernel, but run it in initrd
(that is the long term plan anyways, removing dhcp/bootp completely
and only supporting them from initrd) 


-Andi

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