Am 04.12.2015 um 09:35 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Hello,
> 
> Michael Biebl [2015-12-03 21:38 +0100]:
>>>> Yes. The only problem though is that it requires the admin to correctly
>>>> specify which interfaces are "auto" and which are "hotplug", because
>>>> ifupdown cannot really figure that out itself. And there might be some
>>>> cases where a virtual interface depends on one or more hotpluggable
>>>> ones.
>>
>> I actually think this ifupdown-wait-online service should block for
>> allow-hotplug devices as well.
> 
> But then we must not use that from networking.service or anywhere else
> from the boot sequence. The whole point of "allow-hotplug" is that
> these devices may not be present at boot (USB devices).

In theory, I agree. In practice, the debian-installer has used
allow-hotplug for all devices since a few release cycles.

So I assume the vast majority of users has allow-hotplug in their
/e/n/i, even for "internal" devices (onboard, PCI, etc).


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