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Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] normal/main: Search for specific config files for net
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Javier Martinez Canillas |
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Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] normal/main: Search for specific config files for netboot |
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Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:28:37 +0100 |
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On 11/29/19 4:46 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 06:02:35PM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> On 10/30/19 2:45 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>>> We had a discussion with Daniel and agreed on following:
>>> 1) we accept the feature
>>
>> Great, thanks.
>>
>>> 2) we want to have an option to specify grub config file. And if this
>>> option is present, the scanning would be disabled
>>
>> Sure, you mentioned that this should be a DHCP option. Which option were
>> you thinking that could be used for this?
>
> We took closer look at DHCP RFC and it seems to us that it is more
> complicated than we expected. So, let's do this differently. Please add
Yes, I also took a closer look at the RFC and didn't see how what you
proposed could be done.
> a variable which can be used to disable this feature. However, it should
> be noted in the GRUB doc that this variable has to be set in early
> config file.
>
I don't know if that could work, since this logic is to fetch the config
file where this variable could be set (or a load_env command invoked to
load these from an env file).
Another option is to have this feature under a configure flag that will
be disabled by default. Then distros that want the feature can enable it.
> Daniel
>
Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer - Desktop Hardware Enablement
Red Hat
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