Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Josh Triplett Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist,linux.debian.kernel Subject: Bug#986741: Please enable CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y in cloud image Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 03:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Mon Apr 12 01:48:09 2021 Old-Return-Path: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.95 Reply-To: Josh Triplett , 986741@bugs.debian.org Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-Cc: Debian kernel team X-Debian-Pr-Message: followup 986741 X-Debian-Pr-Package: initramfs-tools X-Debian-Pr-Source: initramfs-tools X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 11; hammy, 150; neutral, 46; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--sk:config_, 0.000-+--sk:CONFIG_, 0.000-+--H*RU:sk:josh@jo, 0.000-+--H*F:D*joshtriplett.org, 0.000-+--H*r:sk:josh@jo X-Originating-IP: 50.39.163.217 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Greylist: delayed 97662 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at buxtehude; Mon, 12 Apr 2021 01:44:32 UTC X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1659964 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 27 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: 986741@bugs.debian.org, Bastian Blank X-Original-Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 18:44:25 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <161808906636.239335.1925377869579065344.reportbug@s> <20210410212353.GA9595@shell.thinkmo.de> <161808906636.239335.1925377869579065344.reportbug@s> <3857bfb21af131b6f750d599a0517250ff3cf878.camel@decadent.org.uk> <161808906636.239335.1925377869579065344.reportbug@s> <3857bfb21af131b6f750d599a0517250ff3cf878.camel@decadent.org.uk> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:1055424 linux.debian.kernel:70081 On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 10:45:27PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: reassign -1 initramfs-tools > Control: tag -1 - wontfix > Control: forcemerge 789067 -1 > > On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 15:36 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:23:53PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 02:11:06PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > For cloud instances and VMs, it's helpful to be able to use ip=dhcp as a > > > > minimal network configuration. Enabling this option will do nothing > > > > unless the kernel command line includes ip=dhcp. > > > > > > We don't support initramfs-less boot. > > > > Whether you have an initramfs or not is orthogonal to DHCP > > configuration. The kernel's built-in DHCP configuration works even if > > you're not using a network filesystem as the root filesystem. > > The initramfs is supposed to take responsibility for handling all of > the legacy boot parameters. Moving this to initramfs-tools and merging > it with the existing bug there. That wouldn't actually solve the issue as reported. I was hoping specifically for the in-kernel support. I'd like to use this on a cloud instance that uses ext4 on NVMe, and thus doesn't currently need an initramfs.