remote-cryptsetup-pre.target was designed as an active unit (that pulls in
network-online.target), the opposite of remote-fs-pre.target (a passive unit,
with individual provider services ordering itself before it and pulling it in,
for example iscsi.service and nfs-client.target).
To make remote-cryptsetup-pre.target really work, those services should be
ordered before it too. But this would require updates to all those services,
not just changes from systemd side.
But the requirements for remote-fs-pre.target and remote-cryptset-pre.target
are fairly similar (e.g. iscsi devices can certainly be used for both), so
let's reuse remote-fs-pre.target also for remote cryptsetup units. This loses
a bit of flexibility, but does away with the requirement for various provider
services to know about remote-cryptsetup-pre.target.
This makes this target the same as remote-fs.target in this regard. In practice
it probably doesn't make that much difference, because all encrypted devices
that are part of remote-fs.target (marked with _netdev) will be used for mount
points, so they will be pulled in anyway individually, but with this change any
such device will be configured, even if it is not pulled by any other unit.
The pair is similar to remote-fs.target and remote-fs-pre.target. Any
cryptsetup devices which require network shall be ordered after
remote-cryptsetup-pre.target and before remote-cryptsetup.target.
Yu Watanabe