Re: OT(?) -- Should the net.agent script cause "ifup lo" to be run?

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

> From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 2:03 AM
> 
> I would like to see systems in the future that are
> much more usage driven than the ones of today.

Me too -- for all that it's a significant change in "user model"
from traditional UNIX.  Today, autoconfiguration is much
more important that it was way back when; and conserving
system power usage starts to be a lot more important.

> On such a system, the boot process proper could be very fast.

A very useful side effect!

> On the other hand, you might want your system to configure
> everything, at least in the background, just to reduce the pauses
> the first time you were to use each device.  It would depend on how
> much you cared about kernel footprint and power consumption.

Today, the hotplug scripts are set up to configure everything they
can, even for the "cold plugged" boot scenario, on the grounds
that we don't have code to support multiple operational policies
yet, and that's the most general single policy to adopt.  (Plus,
from having done this sort of thing before, I know that having
multiple such policies is confusing to pretty much everyone.)

I certainly agree that richer system models for autoconfiguration
will be needed.  Different kinds of systems should be able to have
different levels of autonomy ... as well as adopting different power
management policies.

- Dave



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