Re: [RFT PATCH] Delay netroot mounting by 1 second

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

David Dillow wrote:
[snip]
> I've been thinking about this a bit, and I'd like to split the duties up
> a bit, as I'd like to know the server IPs needed for other reasons. My
> proposed split is that legacy handling -- ie nfsroot=blah to
> netroot=nfs:blah conversion -- is done as it is now, and have the root
> handler do syntax validation and stop, spit out the server IP(s), and do
> the mount, depending on options handed to it (--validate, --servers, and
> no options, respectively).

Hmmm... just so that I understand you correctly. Are you proposing to 
move the cmdline-parsers back into the root handlers and add arguments? 
If not maybe you could a more detailed example of your idea?

> The sourced scripts could just call into their handler to do the final
> validation, and netroot would get rid of its loop as it can call the
> handler directly since it has the protocol field.

Uhhh... which loop are you talking about?

> The only issue is handling the legacy NFS root-path options, everything
> else is expected to have nfs:/nfs4:/nbd:/iscsi: or what not. I don't
> think it would be the end of the world if the that handling lived in
> netroot itself, as it will be the only root-path legacy handler we have.

If possible, netroot should remain as generic as possible. You never 
know what the future holds.
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