While I had tested that a symlink to /dev/null works to "mask" a sysext
I must have gotten something wrong and thus the instructions in
519c2f0d6b don't work. What works,
at least at the moment, is to instead have an empty directory with the
extension name under /etc/extensions/.
Correct the info in the man page and add a test for it.
When an extension image has binaries they should match the host
architecture. Currently there is no way to specify this requirement.
Introduce an ARCHITECTURE field in the extension's release file that
may be set to prevent loading on the wrong host architecture.
Since this new field is introduced late, we don't want to make
specifying it mandatory as it would break existing sysext images.
See https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/24061
A sysext image that merely contains static binaries has no dependency
on the host distribution and should be able to be used anywhere.
Support the special '_any' value for the ID field in the extension to
opt-out of ID and VERSION_ID/SYSEXT_LEVEL matching.
See https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/24061
Devicetree firmware contains an "aliases" node, containing various
aliases for devices described by the firmware. For ethernet devices,
these are named "ethernet0", "ethernet1", etc. They provide a convenient
means of numbering ethernet devices, especially on systems with no other
stable number other than the address. In particular, U-Boot already uses
these aliases to name its ethernet devices.
Previously, there have been attempts (such as [1]) to add support for
these aliases to Linux. However, these patches have been rejected
because it is the maintainers' view that naming policy be left to
userspace. Well, systemd is userspace, so here we are.
In terms of implementation, apparently there can be multiple device
trees at once. I have decided to dodge this problem for now, and just
use /proc/device-tree. If it is desired to support multiple device trees
later, then the scheme can be modified to include the device tree's
index. For example, /sys/firmware/devicetree/base2/aliases/ethernet3
might be named enb2d3.
For the moment we only support "ethernetX" aliases. Future patches might
want to also handle "canX" and "wifiX".
It is common on boards with only one ethernet device to use an alias of
just "ethernet". In this case, the index is an implicit 0. In case the
author of the firmware made a mistake, we check to ensure that aliases
of "ethernet" and "ethernet0" do not both exist.
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/1399390594-1409-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com/Closes: #17625
So far the --help text and the man page of journactl were mostly a large
pile of options shown next to each other. Let's add some basic
structure, and group switches by sections such as "Filtering Options",
"Output Options" and so on.
Do this the same way in the --help text and in the man page.
Since this moves everything around anyway, I also opted to rebreak all
paragraphs in the man page. This makes the patch larger than necessary,
but given that this whole patch doesn't really change contents besides
section titles I figured this would be OK.
Adding Microsoft keys by default is recommended because firmware drivers
might be signed by it.
This also changes the file ending from .esl to .auth as that is used by
sign-efi-sig-list manpage and other sources.
This command takes a mountpoint, unmounts it and makes sure the
underlying partition devices and block device are removed before
exiting.
To mirror the --mount operation, we also add a --rmdir option which
does the opposite of --mkdir, and a -U option which is a shortcut
for --umount --rmdir.
