Re: 2.4.5 - IpConfig, BOOTP not functioning.

Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Sun, 01 Jul 2001 13:16:05 +1000


Joshua Schmidklofer wrote:
>
> Kernel developers,
> I hate to burden you with menial quetions, but: How does ipconfig
> get called & initialized?

The magic happens right at the end of ipconfig.c:

__setup("ip=", ip_auto_config_setup);
__setup("nfsaddrs=", nfsaddrs_config_setup);

When the kernel boots it runs init/main.c:parse_options() to parse
the kernel boot command line. The function init/main.c:checksetup()
will call ip_auto_config_setup() when it sees an argument of the
form "ip=XXXX" on the command line.

If there is no `ip=' argument then ip_auto_config_setup() will
not be called at all.

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