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Message-ID: <20080106093211.GB3172@verge.net.au>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:32:11 +0900
From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@....fi>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Amos Waterland <apw@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with nfsroot due to ip= cmdline changes
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:56:23PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> I recently rebased my kernel tree and discovered that my nfsroot setup
> no longer worked. Here's the relevat part of my cmdline:
>
> ip=192.168.2.200:192.168.2.185:192.168.2.1:255.255.255.0::eth0:off nfsroot=192.168.2.185:/my_nfsroot,v3,tcp root=/dev/nfs
>
> I discovered that now I had to change the autoconfiguration option to
> "on" in order to make nfsroot work. I only want to specify the IP
> address manually so I don't really want autoconfiguration. The current
> code works since it will not try autoconfiguration when all options are
> specified manually but the current behaviour does not really match the
> documentation ie. now the autoconf parameter can disable the whole IP
> configuration step even though the documentation says it will only
> disable autoconfiguration.
>
> Looks like these are the relevant commits:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a6c05c3d064dbb83be88cba3189beb5db9d2dfc3
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9cecd07c3f7a818a5865daad8cb5be408508dc99
Hi,
I believe that this patch from Amos Waterland resolves the problem that
you are seeing: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/5/247
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Horms
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