From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933129Ab2GCNVD (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 09:21:03 -0400 Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.162]:49047 "EHLO mo-p00-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933034Ab2GCNU7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 09:20:59 -0400 X-RZG-AUTH: :P2EQZWCpfu+qG7CngxMFH1J+zrwiavkK6tmQaLfmztM8TOFJjS0PG5UX X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:20:49 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: KY Srinivasan Cc: Greg KH , apw@canonical.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp Message-ID: <20120703132049.GA10663@aepfle.de> References: <20120621224737.GA5933@kroah.com> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF9155EC47A@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <20120622132547.GA2639@kroah.com> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF9155ED14D@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <20120626213954.GA4840@kroah.com> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF9155ED64A@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <20120626222205.GA5948@kroah.com> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF9155ED68D@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <20120628142340.GA21537@aepfle.de> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF9155EF399@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF9155EF399@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21.rev5543 (2011-12-20) 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. Olaf