netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp

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Message-ID: <642e6af6-fc6b-4c54-a4a6-f5bdd38512c7@tahiti.vyatta.com>
Date:	Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, apw@...onical.com,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp


> On Mon, Jul 02, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> > While I toyed with your proposal, I feel it just pushes the problem
> > out of the daemon code - we would still need to write distro
> > specific
> > scripts. If this approach is something that everybody is
> > comfortable
> > with, I can take a stab at implementing that.
> 
> Until NetworkManager is feature complete and until every distro is
> using
> NetworkManager per default the kvp_daemon needs distro specific code
> to
> get and set network related settings.
> Doing it with an external script will simplify debugging and changes
> to
> the code.

Although,  Network Manager is a good tool for what it does;
it is not appropriate for every distro. It is overkill
in embedded systems, and it's GUI dependency makes it unmanageable
on servers. 
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