Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:25:46 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module. |
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:11:36PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:34:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:10, Robin Holt wrote: > > > The patch at the end of this email makes ipconfig.c work as a loadable > > > module under the 2.5. The diff was taken against the bitkeeper tree > > > changeset 1.1075. > > > > The right fix is to delete ipconfig.c, it has been the right fix for a long > > long time. There are initrd based bootp/dhcp setups that can also then mount > > a root NFS partition and they do *not* need any kernel helper. > > The klibc tarball on kernel.org also has ipconfig-type code, waiting for > initramfs early userspace :) > > Many have wanted to delete ipconfig.c for a while now...
Yep, can't the deletion wait a couple more weeks or so until klibc gets merged? It's not like ipconfig.c is broken currently, is it?
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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