Re: [netmod] explicit mount

> On 23 Feb 2016, at 16:08, Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In yesterday's meeting, Lou (I think?) mentioned a use case for mount
> that is not documented in draft-rtgyangdt-rtgwg-device-model; the need
> for being able to specify modules to mount directly in the schema.
> Something like this:
> 
>  container root {
>    ymnt:mount-point "lne" {
>      ymnt:mount-module "ietf-interfaces";
>    }
>  }
> 

It is IMO impossible to use YANG extensions for similar purposes because it fundamentally changes YANG semantics.

Lada

> It would be useful if the use case for this could be described in more
> details.  Is it a requirement to be able to specify this in the
> schema, or could it be done (as Chris mentioned) in the RFC text?
> 
> The reason I ask is that it is probably not as simple as the example
> above.  First, you probably need to specify a revision of the module
> to be mounted.  Or a min-revision.  Then probably a set of features
> that must be enabled.  And so on.  It turns out that there is already
> a proposal for specifying such a "conformance profile" - YANG Packages
> (see draft-bierman-netmod-yang-package).  Maybe it would be better to
> re-use packages?
> 
> 
> /martin
> 
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