Re: Linux 2.2.16pre7

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 15:24:59 EST


Followup to: <E12x7gY-0003WO-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> o Add DHCP to the ip autoconfig stuff (Chip Salzenberg)
> | Yes this all belongs in user space. No not for 2.2/4
> | Someones 2.5 mission is to get rarp/bootp/dhcp all working via
> | initrd!
>

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.

        -hpa

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