Re: iscsi netboot failure in case of multiple interfaces

[Martin Wilck <mwilck-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 16:09 -0800, si-wei liu wrote:
> 
> On 11/17/2017 11:11 AM, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > 
> > Please note that I'm not the author of the patch I linked, and that
> > this link I sent was also just a starting point:
> > 
> > https://github.com/danimo/dracut/commits/obs_from_git/modules.d/95i
> > scsi
> > 
> > Note also that this branch is quite a bit behind upstream dracut in
> > other areas, so porting the iSCSI changes may not be trivial.
> 
> Is there a plan to upstream these patches soon? 

I don't know. I'll try to find out.

>  Without getting the divergence into the 
> upstream it effectively prohibits other folks from contributing bug 
> fixes to the long standing issue as the nature of the two approaches 
> (fix iscsid v.s. overhaul with iscsiadm) are in conflict? Is there a 
> tradeoff in between - we fix the iscsistart issue first then once
> you're 
> ready to upstream you overwrite what we had done?

If you think you're able to fix iscsistart for good, go ahead.
I have my doubts that it'll work in complex situations.

Martin