Warren Togami wrote:
I have pushed the following changes.
* If netboot, copy /tmp/net.* to /dev/.initramfs/. Initscripts of your
distribution or NetworkManager can read the files in this location to be
aware of prior configured interfaces. A distribution may choose to do
something with this information.
* If you specify kernel cmdline "rdcopystate", then all of /tmp/* is
copied into /dev/.initramfs/. This could sometimes be useful for
post-boot examination or debugging.
* net.<interface name>.lease is written containing the DHCP lease,
because dcbw asked for this for NetworkManager. Your own tools could
choose to do something with it or not.
That's great, thanks!
TODO:
* We need something to write out a file like
/dev/.initramfs/net.eth0.static in the case of a static IP during
initrd. I have never used static IP with initrd before. Are there
multiple syntaxes to configure static IP? Others have touched this part
of the code.
I don't know if this is really necessary. After all, it just a static
conf and initscripts can just check if an interface is already up?
Anyway, the syntax to use on the commandline is ip=... See
http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/dracut/wiki/commandline for more
information.
As for a file format, why not ask the NetworkManager people what they'd
like to have?
Hope that helps
Philippe
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