Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:03:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp |
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> 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.
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