David Dillow wrote: [snip]
I've been thinking about this a bit, and I'd like to split the duties up a bit, as I'd like to know the server IPs needed for other reasons. My proposed split is that legacy handling -- ie nfsroot=blah to netroot=nfs:blah conversion -- is done as it is now, and have the root handler do syntax validation and stop, spit out the server IP(s), and do the mount, depending on options handed to it (--validate, --servers, and no options, respectively).
Hmmm... just so that I understand you correctly. Are you proposing to move the cmdline-parsers back into the root handlers and add arguments? If not maybe you could a more detailed example of your idea?
The sourced scripts could just call into their handler to do the final validation, and netroot would get rid of its loop as it can call the handler directly since it has the protocol field.
Uhhh... which loop are you talking about?
The only issue is handling the legacy NFS root-path options, everything else is expected to have nfs:/nfs4:/nbd:/iscsi: or what not. I don't think it would be the end of the world if the that handling lived in netroot itself, as it will be the only root-path legacy handler we have.
If possible, netroot should remain as generic as possible. You never know what the future holds.
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