Bug#248071: Hot plugged devices shouldn't be marked "auto"

2004-06-29 Thread Per Olofsson
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:27 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 22:59, Per Olofsson wrote: > > I agree. But how do we provide a smooth upgrade here? Default to the > > new behaviour on new installations but ask using debconf during > > upgrades from earlier versions with the old beh

Bug#248071: Hot plugged devices shouldn't be marked "auto"

2004-06-29 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 22:59, Per Olofsson wrote: > I agree. But how do we provide a smooth upgrade here? Default to the > new behaviour on new installations but ask using debconf during > upgrades from earlier versions with the old behaviour? Yes, that would be a good way. And the debconf questi

Bug#248071: Hot plugged devices shouldn't be marked "auto"

2004-06-28 Thread Per Olofsson
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:36 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > I think that pcmcia-cs should ship with an /etc/pcmcia/network > script that does nothing by default. I agree. But how do we provide a smooth upgrade here? Default to the new behaviour on new installations but ask using debconf during upgra

Bug#248071: Hot plugged devices shouldn't be marked "auto"

2004-06-28 Thread Thomas Hood
Per Olofsson is right. The "auto" statement in /e/n/i makes S:S40networking bring up the interface referred to. This is appropriate for interfaces on built-in hardware whose drivers are loaded and fully initialized prior to S:S40networking and that should be ifup'ped at boot and not ifdown'ed unt