systemd: Is it wrong?

[Steve Dickson]

Hello,

One of the maintainers of systemd and I  have been working 
together on trying to convert the NFS SysV init scripts
into systemd services. Here is the long trail... 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699040

The point is this, with fairly complicated system, 
some events need to have happen, like loading modules,
before other events happen, like setting parameters of 
those loaded modules. 

Currently the ExecStart commands can be started and end 
before the ExecStartPre even start. This means setting
modules parameters within the same service file are 
impossible.

I suggested that a boundary be set that all ExecStartPre
commands finish before any ExecStart commands start, 
which would allow complicated subsystems, like NFS, 
to start in a very stable way... 

So is it wrong? Shouldn't there away to allow certain 
parts of a system to synchronously configure some
things so other parts will come up as expected? 

tia,

steved.