> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 1:32 PM > To: Greg KH > Cc: KY Srinivasan; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 08/14] Tools: hv: Gather DNS information > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:51:09AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:32:19PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > Now, gather DNS information. Invoke an external script (that can be > > > distro dependent) to gather the DNS information. > > > > Where is that script? Why a script, this really isn't in a standard > > method for all Linux distros? If not, why not work to do that like the > > freedesktop.org people have done for other system configuration items? > > I suggested using the Network Manager D-Bus API. That obviously > isn't going to work everywhere, but it seems to cover the same simple > cases that this hypervisor-guest interface allows for.
The scheme Olaf proposed, which is what I have implemented here does not preclude using the D-BUS API in the external script. Regards, K. Y -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
