From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757179AbYAFJcU (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 04:32:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753398AbYAFJcN (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 04:32:13 -0500 Received: from koto.vergenet.net ([210.128.90.7]:52174 "EHLO koto.vergenet.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753211AbYAFJcM (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 04:32:12 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:32:11 +0900 From: Simon Horman To: Ville =?iso-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" Cc: Amos Waterland Subject: Re: Problems with nfsroot due to ip= cmdline changes Message-ID: <20080106093211.GB3172@verge.net.au> References: <20080105165623.GA30987@sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080105165623.GA30987@sci.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:56:23PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > I recently rebased my kernel tree and discovered that my nfsroot setup > no longer worked. Here's the relevat part of my cmdline: > > ip=192.168.2.200:192.168.2.185:192.168.2.1:255.255.255.0::eth0:off nfsroot=192.168.2.185:/my_nfsroot,v3,tcp root=/dev/nfs > > I discovered that now I had to change the autoconfiguration option to > "on" in order to make nfsroot work. I only want to specify the IP > address manually so I don't really want autoconfiguration. The current > code works since it will not try autoconfiguration when all options are > specified manually but the current behaviour does not really match the > documentation ie. now the autoconf parameter can disable the whole IP > configuration step even though the documentation says it will only > disable autoconfiguration. > > Looks like these are the relevant commits: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a6c05c3d064dbb83be88cba3189beb5db9d2dfc3 > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9cecd07c3f7a818a5865daad8cb5be408508dc99 Hi, I believe that this patch from Amos Waterland resolves the problem that you are seeing: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/5/247 -- Horms