Messages in this thread |  | | From | "James A. Sutherland" <> | Subject | Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page] | Date | Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:49:19 +0000 |
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On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > In the NIC example, I might well want the DHCP client to run whenever I > > activate the card. Bringing the NIC up with the old configuration - which, with > > dynamic IP addresses, could now include someone else's IP address! - is worse > > than useless. > > You'll notice the pcmcia subsystem already handles this, and keeps data in user > space although it doesnt support saving it back. And it all works > > In your case it would be something like > > eth0 pegasus > nopersist eth0 > post-install eth0 /usr/local/sbin/my-dhcp-stuff
So, in short, this is already done perfectly well in userspace without some sort of Registry-style kernelside hack?
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