From 48dba7f9ace186871528eb4d83cd96e92e853c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>

Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:47:14 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] network: reintroduce rd.neednet

rd.neednet is used by anaconda and the network interfaces cannot

be known in advance.

---

 dracut.cmdline.7.asc                | 3 +++

 modules.d/40network/net-genrules.sh | 4 +++-

 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dracut.cmdline.7.asc b/dracut.cmdline.7.asc

index 71d02ca..c376d79 100644

--- a/dracut.cmdline.7.asc

+++ b/dracut.cmdline.7.asc

@@ -384,6 +384,9 @@ interface name. Better name it "bootnet" or "bluesocket".

 **biosdevname=0**::

     boolean, turn off biosdevname network interface renaming

+**rd.neednet=1**::

+    boolean, bring up network even without netroot set

+

 **vlan=_<vlanname>_:_<phydevice>_**::

     Setup vlan device named <vlanname> on <phydeivce>.

     We support the four styles of vlan names: VLAN_PLUS_VID (vlan0005), VLAN_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD (vlan5),

diff --git a/modules.d/40network/net-genrules.sh b/modules.d/40network/net-genrules.sh

index 8aeee2d..6a58ab5 100755

--- a/modules.d/40network/net-genrules.sh

+++ b/modules.d/40network/net-genrules.sh

@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ fix_bootif() {

 }

 # Don't continue if we don't need network

-[ -z "$netroot" ] && ! [ -e "/tmp/net.ifaces" ] && return;

+if [ -z "$netroot" ] && [ ! -e "/tmp/net.ifaces" ] && ! getargbool 0 rd.neednet >/dev/null; then

+    return

+fi

 # Write udev rules

 {