Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:29:11 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: 'Vladimir Grebenschikov' <vova@fbsd.ru>, Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org>, 'Matthew Emmerton' <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: OpenBSD dhclient incoming Message-ID: <20050617172911.GE20342@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <86y899ct8l.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <20050615061009.GA11914@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <001501c5720b$aceb84d0$0b2a15ac@SMILEY> <20050616164747.GB21733@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <86y899ct8l.fsf@xps.des.no>
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--WBsA/oQW3eTA3LlM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:55:38AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes: > > I'm seriously considering removing the following variables: > > > > network_interfaces >=20 > Don't. >=20 > If network_interfaces is left unspecified, the scripts will use > 'ifconfig -l' and everything is fine provided all the interfaces were > already attached (i.e. the drivers were compiled into the kernel or > listed in loader.conf). This is the common case. >=20 > However, if the driver wasn't already loaded for some reason, > network_interfaces + ifconfig_foo0 will take care of it. Without > network_interfaces, we lose this functionality, for no benefit at all > to anyone. I don't buy this. Removing network_interfaces reduces the amount of code we need to write and the weird edge cases a fair bit and either way you have to edit a file to cause the module to load. Why not edit /boot/loader.conf instead and actually acknowledge what you are doing? -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --WBsA/oQW3eTA3LlM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCswhlXY6L6fI4GtQRAimAAJ9jvpEOd00K0SZDqjljdXzODd5J6QCfXFl2 /XVqaApjO+Ew40wIT01ZHuE= =ALf1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WBsA/oQW3eTA3LlM--
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