Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:21:37 -0500, James Ketrenos wrote:
>
>>The order required of user space is:
>>
>> kernel hotplug hotplug script
>> --------
>>1. module load
>>2. netdev devic
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 19:08 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> But is it really needed? Imagine the situation when computer is started
> with unplugged ethernet cable which is plugged in later. I know, this is
> rare, but - shouldn't be the right approach that DHCP is started by
> hotplug when the carrier
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:08:02PM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> But is it really needed? Imagine the situation when computer is started
> with unplugged ethernet cable which is plugged in later. I know, this is
> rare, but - shouldn't be the right approach that DHCP is started by
> hotplug when the ca
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:57:15 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> I don't think that's really right either. For one thing, things like
> DHCP's timeout start counting at about the same time as "ifconfig up",
> and association can take some time.
You're right, thanks for pointing this out.
> But why don't
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:39 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> I don't agree with this scheme. Association should be started on
> explicit userspace request (*). As we definitely don't want to add a new
> WE (or some other) call to perform this, the only call we can use for
> telling the driver "ok, now it
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 23:13 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Well, we can fix the distros :-).
If you provide a patch, I can test if this is an issue with the
networking scripts of Gentoo Linux - and if so, push a patch for our
baselayout to fix this issue.
Regards,
Brix
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