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From: Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>
To: Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	initramfs <initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
	Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux
	Installer
	<anaconda-devel-list-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Issues with dracut and network device naming
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:45:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A97D17F.10405@bfh.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A97D0F9.9020302-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>



Harald Hoyer wrote:
[snip]
>> So I would like to propose another solution for this, allow specifying
>> both an interface-name and a mac with ip=, and then have the dracut
>> generated rules do the rename and init. This way problems 3) and 4)
>> above are solved, and we can easily also write the mac address to
>> grub.conf from anaconda when generating the ip= cmdline.
> 
> yes, sane solution .. +1
Yes, +1 as well. I'd vote for not doing this inside the ip= parameter, 
but use something like ifname=iface:mac.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-28 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-28 12:14 Issues with dracut and network device naming Hans de Goede
2009-08-28 12:43 ` Harald Hoyer
     [not found]   ` <4A97D0F9.9020302-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-28 12:45     ` Seewer Philippe [this message]
2009-08-28 14:16       ` Hans de Goede
     [not found]         ` <4A97E6CA.2020200-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-28 15:25           ` Seewer Philippe
     [not found]             ` <4A97F6E6.4040206-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-28 20:55               ` Victor Lowther
2009-08-31 11:20             ` Hans de Goede
     [not found] ` <4A97CA1A.5080606-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-28 14:36   ` Jon Masters
2009-08-31 11:17     ` Hans de Goede
     [not found]       ` <4A9BB155.8020106-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-31 13:32         ` Victor Lowther
2009-08-31 15:16       ` Jon Masters

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