From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756670Ab2GCPDL (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:03:11 -0400 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:52456 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754763Ab2GCPDJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:03:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:03:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Hemminger To: Olaf Hering Cc: Greg KH , apw@canonical.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, KY Srinivasan Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp Message-ID: <642e6af6-fc6b-4c54-a4a6-f5bdd38512c7@tahiti.vyatta.com> In-Reply-To: <20120703132049.GA10663@aepfle.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [50.53.80.93] X-Mailer: Zimbra 7.1.3_GA_3374 (ZimbraWebClient - GC21 (Linux)/7.1.3_GA_3346) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Mon, Jul 02, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > While I toyed with your proposal, I feel it just pushes the problem > > out of the daemon code - we would still need to write distro > > specific > > scripts. If this approach is something that everybody is > > comfortable > > with, I can take a stab at implementing that. > > Until NetworkManager is feature complete and until every distro is > using > NetworkManager per default the kvp_daemon needs distro specific code > to > get and set network related settings. > Doing it with an external script will simplify debugging and changes > to > the code. Although, Network Manager is a good tool for what it does; it is not appropriate for every distro. It is overkill in embedded systems, and it's GUI dependency makes it unmanageable on servers.