Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 May 2001 18:00:39 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ip autoconfig with modules, kernel 2.4 |
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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:49:53AM -0700, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > Of course, this elminates the need to build kernels with lots of > statically linked ethernet drivers or building lots of kernels with > specific drivers statically linked in. > > My hope is that this is seen as a good idea (and a good > implementation) and that the patch is accepted into the Linux kernel.
Hmm, if you've got userspace up and running, and loaded kernel modules using insmod, then what's wrong about running a dhcp, bootp or rarp client from userspace? You can then drop the kernel space IP autoconfiguration code.
-- 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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