Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:30:25 -0700 | From | Eric S Roman <> | Subject | ip_auto_config: called too early. |
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IP autoconfiguration is not done after we use an initrd, only before. This means, for example, that anyone who uses IP autoconfiguration with a modularized Ethernet driver will not have much luck.
Would it be possible to add a second call to ip_auto_config to see if IP can be configured after the initrd is unmounted?
I tried patching the call into change_root, but it gave me a kernel panic when I tried... :(
Right now ip_auto_config is only done once, during device_setup or net_dev_init().
Maybe if we could compile ip autoconfiguration in as a module as well, life would be easier, no? Then we could just sort of force things to work.
Eric
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