Hi, Thanks for explanation. On 01/13/2012 01:06 AM, Will Woods wrote: > 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. For kdump automatic network setup for non-netroot systems is also a good solution, I'd like to see the feature doesn't depend on "livenet" > > 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 -- Thanks Dave -- 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
