Re: [RFC ONLY 3/5] netroot: remove netif from handler invocation

[Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>]

David Dillow wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:02 +0200, Seewer Philippe wrote:
>> David Dillow wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 15:56 +0200, Seewer Philippe wrote:
>>>> Discussion: Instead of implementing the dhcp options server failover
>>>> just for nfs, why not extend this to all protocols?
>>> This does implement it for all protocols, if they choose to use it.
>> Yes, that is correct. I meant it more like, why should only nfs choose 
>> to use it? We could insert the server into the root argument for each 
>> handler inside netroot instead of just "delegating" it.
> 
> Sorry, I misunderstood.
> 
> I like the concept of other protocols using server_id as a fall back
> when no server IP is given in their arguments (ie nbd::9000 would use
> port 9000 on the DHCP server) as it makes it easier to share configs
> among DHCP servers.
> 
> I suspect others will find it confusing, though.
> 
> 
>>> $1 used to be $netif, so we'd get /tmp/iscsiroot.eth0.1234.out. Now we'd
>>> get /tmp/iscsiroot.root=iscsi:..:blah.1234.out instead. Hence the
>>> removal of $1.
>> Oh, didn't realize that. Thanks for claryfing.
> 
> If this series looks to be worth it, I'll try to do better on the commit
> message regarding this point.

Bah. I think that's just me not thinking enough. And yes, I this series
is worth developing further.
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