From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Young Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] allow network setup without netroot Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:04:54 +0800 Message-ID: <4F0F9146.1090301@redhat.com> References: <1326304109-32652-1-git-send-email-wwoods@redhat.com> <1326304109-32652-3-git-send-email-wwoods@redhat.com> <20120111210614.GB14024@metroid.usersys.redhat.com> <4F0E3CB1.3080607@redhat.com> <20120112170611.GA26875@metroid.usersys.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120112170611.GA26875-s6BhOCdKmxS3M6m420IelR/sF2h8X+2i0E9HWUfgJXw@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Will Woods Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Hi, Thanks for explanation. On 01/13/2012 01:06 AM, Will Woods wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 09:51:45AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: >>> Maybe a 'dummyroot' netroot "handler" that doesn't do anything would be >>> better - that way anything that wants to trigger when the network is up >>> can just add items to the 'netroot' hook, and they'll run like normal >>> netroot hooks. > [...] >> Yes, dummy netroot is a reasonable idea for automatically bring up >> network, but I still do not want to lose the manual setup option. >> I'd like to have both :) > > Right - they're different problems with different solutions. > > I'm looking into automatic network setup for non-netroot systems because > I'm trying to replicate a lot of the stuff that anaconda (the RH/Fedora > installer) used to do in its own custom initramfs system - like fetching > updates, driver disks, and the runtime root filesystem image from the > network. For kdump automatic network setup for non-netroot systems is also a good solution, I'd like to see the feature doesn't depend on "livenet" > > Fetching the runtime image is already done - see modules.d/90livenet. > > I've got nearly-finished code for the "rd.live.updates" argument, > which would let us push out (or test) bugfixes for LiveCDs after > they've been burned/released. (Which would be nice!) > > Driver disks I'm still working on, but that'll be coming soon too. > > Anyway, that stuff is all pretty separate from what it sounds like you're > working on - so I think there's definitely room for both. No worries. > > -w > -- > 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 -- Thanks Dave