Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2001 16:53:39 -0700 | From | "H . J . Lu" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Enable IP PNP for 2.4.4-ac8 |
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:28:05PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > H . J . Lu writes: > > 2.4.4-ac8 disables IP auto config by default even if CONFIG_IP_PNP is > > defined. Here is a patch. > > It doesn't make any sense to enable this unless parameters are > given to the kernel via the kernel command line or from firmware > settings.
From Configure.help:
IP: kernel level autoconfiguration CONFIG_IP_PNP This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols. You need to say Y only for diskless machines requiring network access to boot (in which case you want to say Y to "Root file system on NFS" as well), because all other machines configure the network in their startup scripts.
It works fine for 2.4.4. However, in 2.4.4-ac8, even if I select CONFIG_IP_PNP, I have to pass ip=xxxx to kernel, in addition to nfsroot=x.x.x.x:/foo/bar. With 2.4.4, I can just pass nfsroot=x.x.x.x:/foo/bar to kernel.
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