Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:08:16AM +0000, Russell King wrote:

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You can build the dhcp client with glibc static into your initrd. Its hardly
magic or special programs or random garbage, and last time I counted it came
to one program. Dunno what the other 999 utilities your dhcp needs are ?

How about mount for nfs-root, a shell and a shell script to supply the
correct parameters to mount so it doesn't go and try to mount the
nfs-root with locking enabled - oh, and a few programs like sed and
so forth to pull the mount parameters out of the dhcp client output,
if there is such an output.

If IBM can fit a kernel and a ramdisk containing all the utilities you
describe and more in smaller than 5M of file for tftp, one would think 
that it could be done on Linux.

ipconfig.c does more than just configure networking.  It's a far smaller
solution to NFS-root than any userspace implementation could ever hope
to be.

That's nice.  Would you mind explaining to us where that would be a
benefit?  Aside from dead header space in elf executables, I'm at
a loss as to how a usermode implementation must be significantly
larger than kernel code.

-- 
Chris Dukes
I tried being reasonable once--I didn't like it.