Re: [PATCH 4/4] Allow protocol to be separated from host with a semicolon

[Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

24.01.2017 23:50, Matthew Garrett пишет:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 24.01.2017 03:36, Matthew Garrett пишет:
>>> Some DHCP servers (such as dnsmasq) tokenise parameters with commas, making
>>> it impossible to pass boot files with commas in them. Allow using a
>>
>> grub_net_open() operates on devices, not files. Please give more details
>> about your problem.
> 
> The DHCP server will return a string in the boot_file field. If you
> want to indicate that this file should be obtained over http, the
> easiest way to handle this is to provide a boot file in the form
> (http,host)filename. Unfortunately dnsmasq uses commas to tokenise its
> configuration parameters and there appears to be no way to override
> that, which makes it impossible to provide a boot file in this form.

Really?

dnsmasq -d -z --dhcp-range=192.168.11.20,192.168.11.30 --dhcp-option
option:bootfile-name,'(http,1.2.3.4)/foo/bar' -i eth1


Bootstrap Protocol (ACK)
...
    Option: (67) Bootfile name
        Length: 23
        Bootfile name: (http,1.2.3.4)/foo/bar
    Option: (255) End
        Option End: 255