From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Seewer Philippe Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] 40network: install dhclient, brctl and ifenslave optionally Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:51:59 +0200 Message-ID: <4D905A3F.6040908@bfh.ch> References: <1301065012-16356-1-git-send-email-aidecoe@aidecoe.name> <1301065012-16356-2-git-send-email-aidecoe@aidecoe.name> <1301065012-16356-3-git-send-email-aidecoe@aidecoe.name> <1301065012-16356-4-git-send-email-aidecoe@aidecoe.name> <1301065012-16356-5-git-send-email-aidecoe@aidecoe.name> <1301065012-16356-6-git-send-email-aidecoe@aidecoe.name> <4D8CB520.60504@bfh.ch> <1301305103-sup-5234@ittemni> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1301305103-sup-5234@ittemni> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" To: =?UTF-8?B?QW1hZGV1c3ogxbtvxYJub3dza2k=?= Cc: "initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" On 03/28/2011 11:40 AM, Amadeusz =C5=BBo=C5=82nowski wrote: > Excerpts from Seewer Philippe's message of Fri Mar 25 16:30:40 +0100 = 2011: >> I'll have to object to this, sorry. The current network implementati= on >> does not check if these binaries are there and throws errors if ip=3D= dhcp >> is provided and no dhclient is available. > > dhclient was optional before. You suggest it should be made required, > yes? Ok, I see the point. The dwarning in module-setup was/is misleading. I=20 guess I missed that, sorry. Since there's currently no code that makes any network functionality=20 optional (See modules.d/40network/ifup for example) question is should=20 there be or should all required binaries actually be *required*? Regards, Philippe