netdev - Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver

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Message-ID: <20090312180234.GF14491@shareable.org>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:02:34 +0000
From:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mboards@...grade.net, shemminger@...tta.com, yanok@...raft.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	s.hauer@...gutronix.de, wd@...x.de, dzu@...x.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver

David Miller wrote:
> > I'm confused by this. If I'm NFS-booting the board then how do I get
> > to those userland tools if I don't have a valid MAC address in place
> > to do the root mount?
> 
> Initial ramdisk.

Aren't you basically implying that the in-kernel DHCP client and NFS
mounting should be removed from the kernel too?

I'd agree with that; it's the trend.  But it seems pretty harsh to say
"you can do DHCP+NFS now, but if you want to set the MAC address too,
then you have to reimplement DHCP+NFS a completely different way from
scratch first".

-- Jamie
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