netdev - Re: [PATCH]ip_auto_config bug in 2.6.20-rc6

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Date:	Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:18:29 +0100
From:	tsbogend@...ha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]ip_auto_config bug in 2.6.20-rc6

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:27:29PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> I think this is a bug since I am not using a NFS root FS.
> 
> I just wonder why IP_PNP has not been obsoleted and removed from the 
> tree yet, given that initramfs is the advertised way to do so such 
> things.

I hope this will not happen. Using BOOTP/NFS makes kernel hacking much
easier on not yet supported machines, which offer tftp in their firmware.

Thomas.

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