On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 05:07:22PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:32:19PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > Now, gather DNS information. Invoke an external script (that can be > > > distro dependent) to gather the DNS information. > > > > Where is that script? Why a script, this really isn't in a standard > > method for all Linux distros? If not, why not work to do that like the > > freedesktop.org people have done for other system configuration items? > > We debated this issue on this mailing list for a long time. The consensus was > that > we would invoke external "distro" specific scripts for both configuring the > interface > as well as gathering information that could not be gathered in a distro > independent > fashion. That is what I have implemented here. This code specifies the > interface to this > external script. If these external scripts are not there, it is not fatal - > on the SET side, > the interface will not be configured and on the get side some attributes that > are to be > gathered via these external scripts will not be collected.
I've applied the first 7 patches here, feel free to submit the rest when you answer the other questions I asked as well. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
