From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Warren Togami Subject: /dev/.initramfs copy state before switch_root Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:27:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4A2D8242.40205@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "" I have pushed the following changes. * If netboot, copy /tmp/net.* to /dev/.initramfs/. Initscripts of your distribution or NetworkManager can read the files in this location to be aware of prior configured interfaces. A distribution may choose to do something with this information. * If you specify kernel cmdline "rdcopystate", then all of /tmp/* is copied into /dev/.initramfs/. This could sometimes be useful for post-boot examination or debugging. * net..lease is written containing the DHCP lease, because dcbw asked for this for NetworkManager. Your own tools could choose to do something with it or not. TODO: * We need something to write out a file like /dev/.initramfs/net.eth0.static in the case of a static IP during initrd. I have never used static IP with initrd before. Are there multiple syntaxes to configure static IP? Others have touched this part of the code. Warren Togami wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html