From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Young Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] network: add static route support Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 14:25:16 +0800 Message-ID: <20140604062516.GE2194@darkstar.nay.redhat.com> References: <1398678111-13601-1-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com> <1398678111-13601-2-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com> <20140505071214.GA24097@dhcp-16-116.nay.redhat.com> <20140522073359.GD1859@darkstar.nay.redhat.com> <20140527062512.GA1951@dhcp-16-116.nay.redhat.com> <20140529062059.GH2068@darkstar.nay.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140529062059.GH2068-4/PLUo9XfK+sDdueE5tM26fLeoKvNuZc@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Baoquan He , harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, mmilgram-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org On 05/29/14 at 02:20pm, Dave Young wrote: > On 05/27/14 at 02:25pm, Baoquan He wrote: > > On 05/22/14 at 03:33pm, Dave Young wrote: > > > On 05/05/14 at 03:12pm, Baoquan He wrote: > > > > > Hi, Baoquan > > > > > > The route-$netif is supposed in 1st kernel filesystem. Can we passing the > > > detail ip/netmask/gw for specific nic in kernel cmdline instead of copy > > > the route file in initramfs? In that way we can avoid this dracut fix. > > > > > > I'm not sure if it works for the complicate route setup though. > > > > I am not sure, it had better handle the route during setup net. I want > > to hear what Harald will say. He is more familiar with this. > > Ok, the route table item must be a line like "192.168.100.1 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo metric 203" > > If passing them via cmdline we need quote it with some special character and append > it to the ip= cmdline param > > The other way is copy the route file to /etc/ in initramfs like you are doing. > But we did need the functions to handle the static route. > > So leave to Harald about the interface. Harald, what do you prefer to passing static route item to initramfs? Do you have beeter idea in mind? Thanks Dave