On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Xin LI <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 11/18/11 03:40, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: >> Gentlemen, good day. >> >> Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 04:13:04PM -0800, Xin LI wrote: >>> On 11/06/11 15:17, Doug Barton wrote: >>>> What harm is the error message causing? It seems useful to me >>>> to know if something is happening in the background that may >>>> need the administrator's attention. >>> >>> It's harmful because it's not an error -- for example, a bge0 >>> interface which is a member of lagg group, is usually marked >>> explicitly as non-DHCP. On the other hand, can you give me an >>> example where it *is* an error? :-) I can't seem to think about >>> one but I could be wrong here. >>> >>> It sounds like to me a POLA violation by the way since it's not >>> the way it was, but my argument is primarily about "this gives an >>> error message for valid configuration" and not about POLA. >> >> Since devd.conf uses quietstart, there is a way to make everyone >> happy or at least not so angry: check rc_quiet and act accordingly. >> The patch is available at >> http://codelabs.ru/fbsd/patches/dhclient/dhclient-respect-quiet-mode.diff >> >> > please, test it and report back. > > Is there any counter reasoning about "having an interface marked as > non-DHCP is not an error"? I'm still not convinced with the benefit > of having it show an error message.
+1. I consider this to be debug noise. Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
