[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] skeleton: /etc/network/interface.d/* support

[Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>]

Peter,

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>  >> > We afaik provide no explicit guarantees on the ordering of the various
>  >> > _TARGET_FINALIZE hooks
>  >>
>  >> Correct.
>  >>
>  >> >, but it afaik will run in (package-)alphabetical
>  >> > order, E.G. before the finalize hooks of skeleton so this doesn't work
>  >> > :/
>  >>
>  >> Hum, my thinking was that it did not matter if the "source" line is
>  >> before or after the lo definition. However, the skeleton package
>  >> completely overwrites the file, so indeed, it doesn't work.
>
>  > So leave it as is in the skeleton.mk?
>
> I think that is the only place we can add it, yes.
>
> With that said, there's afaik no packages using interface.d, so if this
> is just for project customization then you might as well handle it there
> (E.G. you might already have a custom interfaces or appending the line
> to it in your post-build is easy).

Agree, but in this case we thought it might make sense to include by
default, so that we encourage the practice of using that style of
interface configuration which follows the behavior/intent of larger
Linux distros.  Especially since the user intentionally enables
ifupdown for more advanced use cases.

I'm good either way.

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