On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 21:29, Khalid Aziz <kha...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 9/22/23 2:01 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 20:41, Khalid Aziz <kha...@debian.org> wrote: > >> > >> Any comments/feedback? I intend to proceed with implementing new > >> behavior next week after Wednesday unless there are objections or other > >> ideas. > > > > Hi, > > > > In the next version of systemd, due in trixie in a couple of months, > > we are going to move the kexec-if-loaded behaviour from systemctl to > > logind itself. Also, we are going to integrate it with the new > > soft-reboot feature, so that it also automatically soft-reboots if a > > new rootfs has been loaded. So I would recommend to do no automation > > at all in kexec-tools, and let systemd handle it, so that it can be > > integrated with other reboot types and so on. Thanks. > > Hi Luca, > > I am planning to include a new script in kexec-tools package which will > be installed as /sbin/kexec-load-kernel. This script uses > /etc/default/kexec to determine which kexec kernel to load and loads it > ready for kexec reboot. My plan was to also include a kexec-reboot > script which simply does "/sbin/kexec-load-kernel; /usr/bin/systemctl > kexec". Neither of those automates kexec reboots but I can leave the > kexec-reboot script out if that works better with upcoming systemd > changes. kexec-load-kernel just makes the task of loading a kexec image > more user-friendly. Opinion?
That sounds good to me, having more helper tools that can be used when needed is useful and certainly doesn't hurt.
