From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Seewer Philippe Subject: Re: Issues with dracut and network device naming Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:45:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4A97D17F.10405@bfh.ch> References: <4A97CA1A.5080606@redhat.com> <4A97D0F9.9020302@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A97D0F9.9020302-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Harald Hoyer Cc: Hans de Goede , initramfs , Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer 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. > > -- > 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 -- 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