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

Mark Asselstine mark.asselstine at windriver.com
Thu Aug 30 17:20:39 UTC 2012


On August 28, 2012 21:11:47 Burton, Ross wrote:
> 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

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

Is there anything else I can contribute here?

Mark




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