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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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Date: 04 Apr 2002 09:13:54 -0700
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Craig <penguin@wombat.ca> writes:

> Yes, Alan mentions the same thing.
> We didn't realize that was the long term plan.  Is that documented anywhere, or
> was it discussed on this list eons ago and 'decided'? ;)

It has been discussed on this list several times.  In fact every time
this has come up.  There are a lot of policy decisions the in kernel
dhcp/bootpc code that are generally best left to user space.  

Al Viro has gone so far as proposed moving a lot of other parts into
user space as well.  But initramfs needs to be in the kernel for that.

Eric
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