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While digging through the birds-nest of network initialisation in our embedded linux setup (Linux SDK on Leopardboard SBC) we've come across what seems like an odd and possibly non-functioning line in /etc/network/interfaces:
# Wired or wireless interfaces
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
pre-up /bin/grep -v -e "ip=[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+" /proc/cmdline > /dev/null
Now, the kernel cmdline in this system may contain the line "ip=192.168.2.1" or some other address, but this line specifically ignores it if it matches (grep -v = show non-matching lines only). Also, it's redirecting it to /dev/null, so it would seem futile either way.
Has anyone seen something like this or got any ideas what it could be doing / might be intended to do, other than nothing?