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. 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 -- 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
