Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Tue Jul 03 2012 - 11:03:05 EST



> 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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