From: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
To: Shradha Gupta <shradhagupta@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org,
"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>,
Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hv/hv_kvp_daemon: Add support for keyfile config based connection profile in NM
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 15:40:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZAYJhm9fVAgCtTiC@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1677133334-6958-1-git-send-email-shradhagupta@linux.microsoft.com>
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:22:14PM -0800, Shradha Gupta wrote:
> As communicated in BZ <2122115>, ifcfg config file support in
What is BZ <2122115>? I guess that's Red Hat's bugzilla?
I don't think this is useful information for the commit message, since
the community cannot access that ticket.
> NetworkManger is deprecated. This patch provides support for the
> new keyfile config format for connection profiles in NetworkManager.
> The patch modifies the hv_kvp_daemon code to generate the new network
> configuration in keyfile format(.ini-style format) instead of ifcfg
> format.
Okay, so the wire protocol for the KVP daemon is not changed. It is just
the intermediate file format that's changed.
> This configuration is stored in a temp file which is further translated
> using the hv_set_ifconfig.sh script. This script is implemented by
> individual distros based on the network management commands supported.
> For example, RHEL's implementation could be found here:
> https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/hyperv-daemons/-/blob/c9s/hv_set_ifconfig.sh
> Debian's implementation could be found here:
> https://github.com/endlessm/linux/blob/master/debian/cloud-tools/hv_set_ifconfig
>
> The next part of this support is to inform the Distro vendors to
> modify these implementations to consume the new configuration format.
>
I guess they will figure out the format has changed when they upgrade to
a new kernel?
Thanks,
Wei.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-06 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-23 6:22 [PATCH] hv/hv_kvp_daemon: Add support for keyfile config based connection profile in NM Shradha Gupta
2023-03-06 15:40 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2023-03-07 5:24 ` Shradha Gupta
2023-04-13 1:31 ` Wei Liu
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