[OE-core] [PATCH V2] base-files: provide a mechanism to skip creation of the hostname file

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Aug 28 20:11:47 UTC 2012


On 28 August 2012 21:01, Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine at windriver.com> wrote:
>> But surely this should be running very early in the boot, and a
>> DHCP-assigned name should be running afterwards?
>
> That hasn't been what I have observed, and doesn't cover the command line
> case. If you have an NFS root this would also not be the case as init will be
> run after the network is setup and root mounted.

There was an implied "and if this isn't the case, a bug should be
filed".  I hadn't thought about NFS-root though.

Ross




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