Re: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt: CONFIG_IP_PNPmust be set

From: Matthias Schniedermeyer
Date: Mon Oct 27 2008 - 18:04:45 EST


On 27.10.2008 22:41, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
> The file nfsroot.txt fails to mention, that Kernel level autoconfiguration
> CONFIG_IP_PNP must be selected in order to be able to even see
> the option "Root file system on NFS" (CONFIG_ROOT_NFS)
>
> I reordered the section 1 of nfsroot.txt and emphasized the dependency.
> (And I fixed some chapter numbering in section 3).

Technically you neither need autoconfiguration nor CONFIG_ROOT_NFS.

With an initrd/initramfs you can do the whole procedure from userspace.

And AFAIR a few years back those options where on the brink of beeing
deprecated for just that reason.


Just my 2 cents.




Bis denn

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