disable network module at boot time

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:27:34AM -0700, Vivek-Kumar Gupta wrote:
>Regarding ep93xx-eth, I just mean to say that, I am using Cirrus logic
>board, and I have also seen ep93xx_eth.c, which generates ep93xx-eth
>driver.
>I am searching ep93xx-eth in booting scripts to turn OFF the Network
>Support from kernel boot. Well my doubt is cleared by Brian, thanks.
>Well now I am looking for some way for disabling Network Support in boot
>time then enable it after kernel boot.
>
>As far as compiling TCP/IP stack as a module, is a good suggestion, but
>I have checked (#make ep=9307a linux-config => opens linux
>configurations) that, but it seems that there is no such option.
>
>I really don't know who's cup of tea is this, busybox or linux kernel ?
>I suppose busy box provides basic infrastructure for kernel to run.

Unless you plugged a libc which is able to run on bare metal into
busybox (i demand to see that patch ;) it's just the opposite:
The kernel provides infrastructure for busybox so userspace (e.g.
busybox) can do various things.

Obviously anything before "Freeing unused kernel memory:" is done by the
kernel. Then userspace takes over.

PS: Last time i looked, you couldn't build ipv4 support modular, lkml
would be the right place to ask (or send patches to) about this.
HTH,