Re: [RFC] dropping network hotplug support from network service

2011-06-23 Thread Richard
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 05:09:55PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > I'm considering drop the network hotplug support from the 'network' > service. This is the code that would automatically run ifup when a new > network device appeared, if there was a configuration for it. > > The supported solution

Re: [RFC] dropping network hotplug support from network service

2011-06-21 Thread Don Dutile
On 06/21/2011 03:16 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Don Dutile (ddut...@redhat.com) said: >>> Essentially, hot-adding a virtual device would not bring the device >>> up automatically if you're using the old network service; you'd have >>> to run 'ifup' by hand. >>> >> hot-adding a VF-nic to a Linux kv

Re: [RFC] dropping network hotplug support from network service

2011-06-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Don Dutile (ddut...@redhat.com) said: > > Essentially, hot-adding a virtual device would not bring the device > > up automatically if you're using the old network service; you'd have > > to run 'ifup' by hand. > > > hot-adding a VF-nic to a Linux kvm guest brings up the hot-added (VF) > nic in th

Re: [RFC] dropping network hotplug support from network service

2011-06-21 Thread Don Dutile
On 06/21/2011 01:52 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Don Dutile (ddut...@redhat.com) said: >> On 06/20/2011 05:09 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >>> I'm considering drop the network hotplug support from the 'network' >>> service. This is the code that would automatically run ifup when a new >>> network dev

Re: [RFC] dropping network hotplug support from network service

2011-06-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Don Dutile (ddut...@redhat.com) said: > On 06/20/2011 05:09 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > I'm considering drop the network hotplug support from the 'network' > > service. This is the code that would automatically run ifup when a new > > network device appeared, if there was a configuration for it

Re: [RFC] dropping network hotplug support from network service

2011-06-20 Thread Don Dutile
On 06/20/2011 05:09 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > I'm considering drop the network hotplug support from the 'network' > service. This is the code that would automatically run ifup when a new > network device appeared, if there was a configuration for it. > > The supported solution would be to use Ne

[RFC] dropping network hotplug support from network service

2011-06-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
I'm considering drop the network hotplug support from the 'network' service. This is the code that would automatically run ifup when a new network device appeared, if there was a configuration for it. The supported solution would be to use NetworkManager for these usage cases (or wicd, or netplugd