Re: [PATCH 3/3] allow network setup without netroot

[Dave Young <dyoung-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

Thanks for explanation.

On 01/13/2012 01:06 AM, Will Woods wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 09:51:45AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>>> Maybe a 'dummyroot' netroot "handler" that doesn't do anything would be
>>> better - that way anything that wants to trigger when the network is up
>>> can just add items to the 'netroot' hook, and they'll run like normal
>>> netroot hooks.
> [...]
>> Yes, dummy netroot is a reasonable idea for automatically bring up
>> network, but I still do not want to lose the manual setup option.
>> I'd like to have both :)
> 
> Right - they're different problems with different solutions.

>

> I'm looking into automatic network setup for non-netroot systems because
> I'm trying to replicate a lot of the stuff that anaconda (the RH/Fedora
> installer) used to do in its own custom initramfs system - like fetching
> updates, driver disks, and the runtime root filesystem image from the
> network.


For kdump automatic network setup for non-netroot systems is also a good
solution, I'd like to see the feature doesn't depend on "livenet"

> 
> Fetching the runtime image is already done - see modules.d/90livenet.
> 
> I've got nearly-finished code for the "rd.live.updates" argument,
> which would let us push out (or test) bugfixes for LiveCDs after
> they've been burned/released. (Which would be nice!)
> 
> Driver disks I'm still working on, but that'll be coming soon too.
> 
> Anyway, that stuff is all pretty separate from what it sounds like you're
> working on - so I think there's definitely room for both. No worries.
> 
> -w
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Thanks
Dave