On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 21:07, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > Marti, sorry for changing my mind on this: would be great if you could > prep a patch for this for systemd itself. D'oh, I already prepared a patch for kexec, although I haven't sent it out yet. > Hmm, so since this would then belong in the shutdown path of systemd, > and only be added for the kexec shutdown path I actually think it would > make more sense to add this into systemd itself instead of kexec-tools, > to ensure the right ordering. Um, why is including in systemd necessary for guaranteeing order? Seems like this should do it... [Unit] DefaultDependencies=no Before=shutdown.target umount.target final.target [Install] WantedBy=kexec.target > I'd like to keep kexec.target different from reboot.target by > default, so that people have both options available. Fair enough. > a) we introduce kexec-load.service which is always in the kexec.target > ? shutdown path, never in reboot.target. Doesn't need to be enabled. > > b) kexec-load.service becomes a NOP if a kernel is already loaded > > c) "systemctl reboot" continues to check whether a kernel is already > ? loaded, and if so results in kexec.target being started rather than > ? reboot.target > > d) If the user wants that the machine is always rebooted via kexec, > ? never with traditional reboot, he can manually create a symlink > ? /etc/systemd/system/reboot.target to > ? /etc/systemd/system/kexec.target. Yeah, agreed. Regards, Marti
