Re: Issues with dracut and network device naming

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

Hans de Goede wrote:
> 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.

Yes. But I think from a user's point of view, the ip= argument is 
already overloaded. ifname= (or whatever) would be much clearer and easier.

Regards,
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