From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans de Goede Subject: Re: Issues with dracut and network device naming Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:16:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4A97E6CA.2020200@redhat.com> References: <4A97CA1A.5080606@redhat.com> <4A97D0F9.9020302@redhat.com> <4A97D17F.10405@bfh.ch> Reply-To: Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A97D17F.10405@bfh.ch> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: anaconda-devel-list-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: anaconda-devel-list-bounces@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Seewer Philippe Cc: initramfs , Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer , Harald Hoyer Hi, On 08/28/2009 02:45 PM, Seewer Philippe wrote: > > > 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. > Hmm, I'm not so sure about that, it sure would be easier for the genrules script to have all the info in one place, instead of having to piece bits together. Regards, Hans