[systemd-devel] [PATCH] hostnamed: add chassis type "robot"

Noé RUBINSTEIN nrubinstein at aldebaran.com
Thu Nov 6 07:11:59 PST 2014


Yes,

In our use case (and prolly likewise in a lot of embedded use cases) there
is another layer that provides more info on what kind of robot it is.

So we are not using this variable for anything other than setting it right
now, and "embedded" sounds good indeed.

Thanks,
Noé.

2014-11-06 14:39 GMT+01:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:

> On Thu, 06.11.14 14:34, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 06.11.14 06:34, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl)
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 06:40:51PM +0100, Noé Rubinstein wrote:
> > > > ---
> > > >  man/hostnamectl.xml               | 3 ++-
> > > >  man/machine-info.xml              | 3 ++-
> > > >  shell-completion/bash/hostnamectl | 2 +-
> > > >  shell-completion/zsh/_hostnamectl | 2 +-
> > > >  src/hostname/hostnamed.c          | 3 ++-
> > > >  5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml
> > > > index 128d92f..0292bad 100644
> > > > --- a/man/hostnamectl.xml
> > > > +++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml
> > > > @@ -217,7 +217,8 @@
> > > >                                  <literal>server</literal>,
> > > >                                  <literal>tablet</literal>,
> > > >                                  <literal>handset</literal>,
> > > > -                                <literal>watch</literal>, as well as
> > > > +                                <literal>watch</literal>,
> > > > +                                <literal>robot</literal>, as well as
> > > >                                  the special chassis types
> > > >                                  <literal>vm</literal> and
> > > >                                  <literal>container</literal> for
> > >
> > > This is a nice fun patch. But I'm a bit concerned where this is
> going...
> > > Soon we'll have to add fridge, car, aircraft, ISS, extraterrestial
> > > rover, etc., since systmed is being used everywhere. I know that it's
> > > rather mundane, but would "other" work for you instead?
> >
> > Hmm, maybe "embedded" would be a good idea, to cover all those
> > aircraft, ISS, car, fridge, robot things?
>
> I have added that now, to cut this short. Noé, does this work for you?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lennart
>
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> Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
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