Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote:
> > RARP might be hard, but BOOTP/DHCP should be easy enough. However, I
> > *do* think that it is worth pointing out that __init makes
> > startup-only kernel bloat of this kind far more forgivable.
>
> Ehm, I think that most DHCP stuff would not be __init, since the lease
> on the IP address needs to be renewed every now and then.
>
*THAT* belongs in user space. The kernel only needs to acquire the
initial lease.
-hpa
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