ip_auto_config: called too early.

Eric S Roman (eroman@ftg10.lbl.gov)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:30:25 -0700


IP autoconfiguration is not done after we use an initrd, only before.
This means, for example, that anyone who uses IP autoconfiguration with a
modularized Ethernet driver will not have much luck.

Would it be possible to add a second call to ip_auto_config to see if
IP can be configured after the initrd is unmounted?

I tried patching the call into change_root, but it gave me a kernel
panic when I tried... :(

Right now ip_auto_config is only done once, during device_setup or
net_dev_init().

Maybe if we could compile ip autoconfiguration in as a module as well,
life would be easier, no? Then we could just sort of force things
to work.

Eric

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