[Buildroot] [PATCH v4] Allow a single DHCP configuration via the system configuration submenu
Jeremy Rosen
jeremy.rosen at openwide.fr
Mon Feb 16 08:46:28 UTC 2015
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> >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Kenton <skenton at ou.edu> writes:
>
> >>>
> >>>> +config BR2_SIMPLE_DHCP
> >>>
> >>> We're not completely consist with this, but the new system
> >>> options
> >>> are
> >>> called BR2_SYSTEM_*, so I've renamed to the option.
> >>>
> > On this topic, what about the following idea?
>
> > If the interface name is blank do not perform DHCP as currently
> > If the interface name is "*" then run something like this script
> > to automatically find and use the first network interface for DHCP
> > I'd like to be able to use the same BR config on slightly
> > different
> > boards that may sometimes have different network interface
> > names/orders
> > The kernel handles that OK with modules so maybe buildroot could
> > to?
>
> So those boards have network interfaces not using eth%d names? That
> sounds pretty uncommon to me. Another approach would simply be add an
> init script to rename those to eth0 with nameif.
>
there is the (still pretty uncommon) case of networkd that does interface
naming based on the physical layout and not the module loading order
interfaces are never named eth* in that case.
Regards
Jeremy Rosen
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