On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 at 06:43 GMT, Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Current dracut network only will be setup when netroot is used. But there are > some cases we need network even without netroot. For example kdump will need > copy vmcore to remote machine via scp or nfs mount. OTOH, if we use dracut as > a recovery system the network is helpful even root is not a network device. > > This implementation is based on the manually bring up method. Here add a kernel > cmdline argument rd.neednet. If rd.neednet is set dracut will bring up network > with ifup $INTERFACE -m. If netroot is used we still keep original behavior. > I don't think we really need to introduce a new cmdline, I think we can re-use ip= cmdline. Currently, if ip= is specified but netroot is not, ip= will be ignored. We can change this, let dracut bring up network as long as we have ip=, even we don't have netroot. -- 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
