Re: Redundant nfsroot cmdline options

[Dave Dillow <dave-i1Mk8JYDVaaSihdK6806/g@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:46:24PM -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> I am concerned about the proliferation of too many redundant ways of  
> configuring netboot.  We should clearly document each supported method  
> on this Wiki page and figure out which methods should be cut.  The most  
> obvious methods to cut are NEW inventions of dracut that are redundant  
> to other methods.

> root=nfs       nfsroot=...
> root=nfs4      nfsroot=...
> root=/dev/nfs4 nfsroot=...
>
> These are all new inventions in dracut, redundant to the following  
> native methods already supported.

These short cuts are simple, and fall naturally out of the current command
line parsing. I don't expect validating them to be any harder than the
translation I already do into the canoncical nfs[4]:IP:/path:options
format -- you validate the canonical. Documenting them is not very
difficult, either. Maybe there is a potential of user confusion, but you
hide them away in the "Legacy support" or "Non-recommended" appendix.

I simply don't see the problem.

But, I'm tired of having this same coversation every few days and I
don't care enough to continue it now. I'm not going to lose sleep if these
options are gone, so rip them out if that's your fancy.
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