Enable user to specify that a device should be configured early, that is
during the initial RAM-disk boot phase. This may be necessary, e.g. to
override auto-configuration for a device which is also applied during
that boot phase. It may also be used to manually specify devices that
are required to access the root file system, such as networking devices.
Users can mark devices as requiring early configuration by specifying
a value of 1 for the newly added internal attribute zdev:early:
# chzdev dasd-eckd 0.0.1234 -p zdev:early=1
This can be changed back by removing the attribute setting, or by
setting the attribute value to 0:
# chzdev dasd-eckd 0.0.1234 -p -r zdev:early
or
# chzdev dasd-eckd 0.0.1234 -p zdev:early=0
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This change adds base infrastructure for implementing internal device
attributes. In the context of the zdev tools, an internal device
attribute is a new type of device attribute with the following
characteristics:
- Can be set and removed like normal device attributes
- Affects zdev-internal handling only
- Does not correspond to an actual device attribute, that is
it has no representation in SysFS
- Can not be set in the active configuration
- Name starts with "zdev:" to prevent conflicts with actual
device attributes
Values for internal device attributes are stored in udev rules alongside
the normal persistent configuration of a device. They are encoded as
udev environment variables. Note that they have no further effect on
udev processing.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
