On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 13:52 +0100, Seewer Philippe wrote: > Hello all > > The following two patches add udev driven network configuration support > and a basic nfsroot handler. > > As describe earlier, there can be many weird and complicated netboot > cases. The requirement that it should be udev driven doesn't make it any > easier. At least at first glance. > > The current solution actually makes use of udev for speed up. The idea > is based on Victor Lowther's first implementation which forked off > dhclients after the udev event fired. By modifying ifup and the > dhclient-script we can synchronize back by using a simple (blocking) > FIFO. Interfaces which are ready are upped and tested FIFO-style by > reading one out of the fifo, and handing over the the actual > mount-script. If it succeeds, all is well. If it fails or times out, we > try (or wait for) the next interface. > > The whole interface configuration part tries to behave as much like the > current implementation inside the kernel as possible, with a few > extensions: > - I'm assuming that if there's a network driver inside the initrd the > user wants something. So no ip= option is treated like ip=dhcp > - Instead of only relying on the first interface that pops up or the one > that first receives a dhcp reply we try all interfaces that have a > useable configuration. You shoudl save the additional dhcp options, so that people who want to do their fs mounting based on parameters provided by dhcp can do that. > Patches apply on top of Harald Hoyers merge tree > (git://git.surfsite.org/pub/git/dracut.git) > > Regards, > Philippe > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Victor Lowther RHCE# 805008539634727 LPIC-2# LPI000140019 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
