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Re: [PATCH] Use libnl and dhclient in nash for network configuration.



On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 10:19 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 09:59 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 12:00 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
> >>> This patch modifies nash to use dhclient when the 'network'
> >>> command requests dhcp.  Instead of firing off dhclient-script,
> >>> nash reads the leases file directly and extracts the information.
> >>> The nashSetupInterface() function is then called (which is also
> >>> the case for manual network configuration) to configure the
> >>> interface.  nashSetupInterface() uses libnl to add the address
> >>> and set the default gateway.
> >> Looks okay to me.  While I'd like to get bigger initrd changes done for
> >> F11, I suspect that's not realistically going to happen and this will at
> >> least let us finish killing off libdhcp.  
> > 
> > Oh -- we probably also need a change to mkinitrd that pulls dhclient
> > into the initrd
> > 
> New patch sent.  One line to mkinitrd.

With the combination of the two, seems good to me

Jeremy


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