From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.
Date: 07 Mar 2003 00:13:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1046996037.18158.142.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030306222546.K838@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 22:25, Russell King wrote:
> > > The right fix is to delete ipconfig.c, it has been the right fix for a long
> > > long time. There are initrd based bootp/dhcp setups that can also then mount
> > > a root NFS partition and they do *not* need any kernel helper.
> >
> > The klibc tarball on kernel.org also has ipconfig-type code, waiting for
> > initramfs early userspace :)
> >
> > Many have wanted to delete ipconfig.c for a while now...
>
> Yep, can't the deletion wait a couple more weeks or so until klibc gets
> merged? It's not like ipconfig.c is broken currently, is it?
Thats how it ended up in 2.4. Klibc doesnt really matter, the apps exist
linked with dietlibc and stuff even without klibc.
Time for it to die
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-06 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-06 21:10 Robin Holt
2003-03-06 22:34 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-06 22:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-06 22:25 ` Russell King
2003-03-06 22:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-07 0:13 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-03-06 23:19 ` Russell King
2003-03-07 0:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-07 0:08 ` Russell King
2003-03-07 1:29 ` Chris Dukes
2003-03-07 9:42 ` Russell King
2003-03-07 11:46 ` Bogdan Costescu
2003-03-08 2:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-07 13:38 ` Chris Dukes
2003-03-07 14:29 ` Russell King
2003-03-07 16:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-09 1:21 ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-09 8:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-03-07 21:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-07 22:00 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-07 7:15 ` Michael Mueller
2003-03-07 12:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-07 21:33 ` Michael Mueller
2003-03-09 4:46 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-03-07 9:10 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-03-07 14:43 ` Charles Cazabon
2003-03-07 15:06 ` John Bradford
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303081132030.12316-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
2003-03-08 16:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-08 16:19 ` Russell King
2003-03-08 16:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-08 17:05 ` Russell King
2003-03-08 18:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
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