Re: [PATCH v2] allow ifup bring up network manually even without netroot

[Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 01/12/2012 10:07 AM, Dave Young wrote:
>>>> If we need to invoke `ifup` by
>>>> ourselves, then we also need to determine which NIC we should bring
>>>> up, this will make kdump code larger.
>>>>
>>>> So, I hope, we can have some kernel cmdline (like ip=...) to tell
>>>> dracut which NIC we want to bring up in the second kernel, provided by
>>>> either ssh-client module or nfs module.
>>>
>>>
>>> If we need to pass the nic name to cmdline then we still need to
>>> determine which one should be use.
>>
>>
>> Sure, but this will go to ssh-client or nfs module, not kdump.
>
>
> ssh-client does not pass any cmdline, instead the scripts of call dracut
> to generate initrd do this. In case of kdump it's the kdump init scripts
> or simplified mkdumprd, so we could not skip this step.

Well, I still think ssh-client or nfs module should handle the network, 
not kdump's mkdumprd, like lvm module for lvm.* cmdline.

But anyway, I will take this patch to my kdump tree.

Thanks.