Introduce a --hostonly-nics option #957
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Currently when network is enabled, dracut will install all network drivers that are currently loaded, but some time only one NIC is needed for the initramfs. So for strict hostonly mode, add a --hostonly-nics option, user can provide a list of NICs to be enabled, and only needed drivers for specifed NICs will be installed so save space. Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
These modules are installed in 95iscsi, no need to repeat here.
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Can one of the admins verify this patch? |
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Out of curiosity: What use case necessitates that patch? |
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Hi, it's mostly for kdump, and so are many other --hostonly-xxx options. Kdump uses dracut, but have a very limited memory, so it expects the initramfs to be as small as possible. In some case, where there are multiple NIC cards using different drivers, and kdump knows which NIC is needed, it can specify the needed NICs and drop all other unnecessary drivers. |
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Introduce a --hostonly-nics param, with this param, if strict hostonly mode is used, it will only install driver for specified NIC.000p
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