[thirdparty/dracut.git] / TODO

Current TODO list, broken into things which are relevant for the
initramfs itself (/init et al) vs the generator.  A lot of things
are/should be marked with "FIXME" in the code

INITRAMFS TODO
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* The hard-coded list of udev rules that we care about is kind of
lame.  See about getting /lib/udev/initrules.d or similar for storing
the rules that we care about in the initramfs.  These could be
symlinks/hardlinks to the main rules in some cases or special-cased
ones
* LVM activation by udev is a bit of a large hammer right now
* root= parsing should be done with udev creating /dev/root symlink
for us appropriately
* Proving some support with a simple network based root would be good
  * Do we just call dhclient, etc or try to get NetworkManager going?
* Would be nice not to have to kill and restart udev across switchroot 
* mdraid
* dmraid
* multipath
* Should SELinux policy be done in the initramfs or from the real
rootfs?
* Keyboard layout/consolefont setup is Fedora/RHEL-specific.  


GENERATOR TODO
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* Default module specificatoin could use some work
* udev rule copying, as mentioned above, is a bit too hard-coded
* pkg-config integration, to make it easy for other packages to use us.
* Autotool-izing the package is probably overkill, but making the Makefile
  vaguely autotools-compatible and adding a configure script would probably
  be a good thing.
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78ad9ceb	1	Current TODO list, broken into things which are relevant for the
55ca5f4f JK	2	initramfs itself (/init et al) vs the generator. A lot of things
55ca5f4f JK	3	are/should be marked with "FIXME" in the code
78ad9ceb JK	4
	5	INITRAMFS TODO
	6	--------------
78ad9ceb JK	7	* The hard-coded list of udev rules that we care about is kind of
	8	lame. See about getting /lib/udev/initrules.d or similar for storing
	9	the rules that we care about in the initramfs. These could be
	10	symlinks/hardlinks to the main rules in some cases or special-cased
	11	ones
	12	* LVM activation by udev is a bit of a large hammer right now
78ad9ceb JK	13	* root= parsing should be done with udev creating /dev/root symlink
78ad9ceb JK	14	for us appropriately
78ad9ceb JK	15	* Proving some support with a simple network based root would be good
	16	* Do we just call dhclient, etc or try to get NetworkManager going?
	17	* Would be nice not to have to kill and restart udev across switchroot
	18	* mdraid
	19	* dmraid
	20	* multipath
aabc0553 JK	21	* Should SELinux policy be done in the initramfs or from the real
	22	rootfs?
	23	* Keyboard layout/consolefont setup is Fedora/RHEL-specific.
78ad9ceb JK	24
	25
	26	GENERATOR TODO
	27	--------------
55ca5f4f JK	28	* Default module specificatoin could use some work
55ca5f4f JK	29	* udev rule copying, as mentioned above, is a bit too hard-coded
c968efbb VL	30	* pkg-config integration, to make it easy for other packages to use us.
	31	* Autotool-izing the package is probably overkill, but making the Makefile
	32	vaguely autotools-compatible and adding a configure script would probably
	33	be a good thing.