From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MyLNG-0007aA-2H for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:07:50 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MyLNE-0007XY-2k for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:07:48 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MyLN9-0007QH-JS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:07:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51792 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MyLN9-0007Pw-7g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:07:43 -0400 Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.4]:60478) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MyLN8-00071q-E9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:07:43 -0400 Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BC74C8029 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:07:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from vaka.local (ves78-2-82-232-204-47.fbx.proxad.net [82.232.204.47]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B4F4C806C for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:07:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AD6D847.3010402@mistur.org> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:07:35 +0200 From: Yoann Moulin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; fr; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <1255592280.3243.3.camel@fz.local> <4AD6D6B7.5010500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AD6D6B7.5010500@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Patch for export IP addresses from PXE into grub2 enviroment variables X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:07:48 -0000 >>> Having the Client IP avaible inside grub.cfg might be useful for some. >>> Then you could have one grub.cfg for all your machines and if one or a >>> small number of it needs some special stuff, you could just check for >>> the IP inside the grub.cfg. Then you don't need to use a seperate one >>> for them. >> >> Please, no. That's terribly non-scalable for a large number of >> clients (enterprise deployments). We definitely need a solution that >> includes the configuration file to use as a DHCP option. >> > One doesn't prevent another. And then it will be up to administrator to > choose the way they want their system to work >> --S might be good to get option-150 first for compatibility with old grub than developed new feature ? I mean, this feature can be useful for some people but option-150 must be need by more people ? Yoann