Checking for network online

[Patrick Williams]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:04:12PM -0800, Johnathan Mantey wrote:
> On 2/23/22 09:44, Jiaqing Zhao wrote:
> > On 2022-02-23 21:48, Patrick Williams wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 10:09:19AM +0800, Jiaqing Zhao wrote:

> There may be openbmc powered servers that do use the distributed logging 
> provided by rsyslogd. If there are then globally removing network-online 
> from the rsyslog service file is undesirable. I consider the same to be 
> true of assigning a default RequiredForOnline=false.
> 
> Based on the above, it's my opinion this is a vendor based decision for 
> how to configure rsyslog/systemd-networkd-wait-online.

I agree we shouldn't enable this globally, but that doesn't mean we can't add
a simple PKGCONFIG that allows it to be enabled/disabled as needed.  That way
we only have the single `PKGCONFIG:append` line in vendor layers and vendors
that have a problem with it can leave it same as upstream.

-- 
Patrick Williams
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