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 17:25:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4A97F6E6.4040206@bfh.ch> References: <4A97CA1A.5080606@redhat.com> <4A97D0F9.9020302@redhat.com> <4A97D17F.10405@bfh.ch> <4A97E6CA.2020200@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A97E6CA.2020200-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: Hans de Goede Cc: Harald Hoyer , initramfs , Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer 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, -- 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