Jeff Garzik writes:
> But... per a discussion a month ago or so, people made the point that
> this stuff can be better done in userspace.
>
> Can we take IP autoconfig out of the kernel?
>
> You should be able to accomplish the same thing with dhcpcd, bootp,
> pump, etc.
I have a quick "hack" to get this working you may be interested in:
--- linux.orig/arch/arm/vmlinux-armv.lds.in Sat Jan 22 19:46:12 2000
+++ linux/arch/arm/vmlinux-armv.lds.in Sat Feb 12 20:20:02 2000
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
*(.setup.init)
__setup_end = .;
__initcall_start = .;
+ drivers/net/net.o(.initcall.init)
+ fs/fs.o(.initcall.init)
*(.initcall.init)
__initcall_end = .;
. = ALIGN(4096);
This seems to work fine for me, however I haven't tried it without networking
configured (I think it may fail to link). This behaviour should be checked
before it goes into Linus' kernel.
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