On Tuesday 24 February 2009 18:48:04 Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> On 09/02/18 05:53 +1000, Kel Modderman said ...
> > ifplugd.init might be problematic in its proposed form. The initscript
> > should only do with "allow-ifplugd" interfaces what it does for
> > HOTPLUG_INTERFACES. The maintainer scripts would have to in order to
> > manage changes to the debconf questions though ... and integrating this
> > feature starts to become messy.
>
> I did not understand this bit, can you please explain?
>
> > > +# Invent an "allow-ifplugd" interfaces class
> > > +ALLOW_INTERFACES="$(sed -n -e "s/^allow-${DAEMON_NAME}[[:space:]]\+//p" \
> > > + /etc/network/interfaces 2>/dev/null || true)"
> > > +
> > > +# Append allow-ifplugd interfaces to statically listed interface list
> > > +INTERFACES="$INTERFACES $ALLOW_INTERFACES"
> >
> > ^^ they should be treated as hotplug interfaces, not statically managed
> > ones.
>
> Again, but why is that so?
>
> Apologies in case I am missing something obvious here.
It was a poor explanation by me sorry, I will reply to your email again
after taking more time and care to review the ifplugd changes in vcs. Will
endeavour to do that sooner rather than later ...
Thanks, Kel.
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