On Friday 22 May 2015 12:16 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > In practice, it looks like the manpage is correct, and the comments in > ethernet.conf are wrong. > > This is too bad, because it would be nice to avoid disabling the link > when the carrier is still active. IIRC, the configuration comments are correct. This change was proposed by someone later, and the justification was similar. It should be in the git commit logs.
> Also, with this flag set (as it is by default, i think), the ethernet > does not get re-enabled after moving back from Battery to AC power. By deafult, we wouldn't disable the eth device. Regarding the behavior, I'll look into this later. Meanwhile, if you root-cause it, please do comment on this bug. > Perhaps there's a cleanup step that needs to happen as well here? I need to verify first. And my current laptop has no eth devices. But I'll be able to figure out. Just need some time. My gut feel is that the manpage is outdated. Thanks for reporting. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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