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networkd-wait-online: improve interoptability and enable by default
authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:42:55 +0000 (17:42 +0200)
committerTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:23:07 +0000 (00:23 +0200)
commit3a67e927e3be7efb8edf314a31aa4f8f5cba4f53
tree5736719c730b85db89f6be3135290c565a02d046
parentfa4f8f9bc1fbef6a658cff39ac185bbedea6caf4
networkd-wait-online: improve interoptability and enable by default

To make sure we don't delay boot on systems where (some) network links are managed by someone else
we don't block if something else has successfully brought up a link.

We will still block until all links we are aware of that are  managed by networkd have been
configured, but if no such links exist, and someone else have configured a link sufficiently
that it has a carrier, it may be that the link is ready so we should no longer block.

Note that in all likelyhood the link is not ready (no addresses/routes configured),
so whatever network managment daemon configured it should provide a similar wait-online
service to block network-online.target until it is ready.

The aim is to block as long as we know networking is not fully configured, but no longer. This
will allow systemd-networkd-wait-online.service to be enabled on any system, even if we don't
know whether networkd is the main/only network manager.

Even in the case networking is fully configured by networkd, the default behavior may not be
sufficient: if two links need to be configured, but the first is fully configured before the
second one appears we will assume the network is up. To work around that, we allow specifying
specific devices to wait for before considering the network up.

This unit is enabled by default, just like systemd-networkd, but will only be pulled in if
anyone pulls in network-online.target.
16 files changed:
Makefile-man.am
Makefile.am
man/networkd-wait-online.conf.xml [new file with mode: 0644]
man/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.xml [new file with mode: 0644]
man/systemd-networkd.service.xml
src/libsystemd-network/network-internal.c
src/libsystemd-network/network-internal.h
src/network/.gitignore
src/network/networkd-link.c
src/network/networkd-wait-online-gperf.gperf [new file with mode: 0644]
src/network/networkd-wait-online.c
src/network/networkd-wait-online.conf [new file with mode: 0644]
src/network/networkd-wait-online.h [new file with mode: 0644]
units/.gitignore
units/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.in [new file with mode: 0644]
units/systemd-networkd.service.in