On May 21, 2008, at 2:01 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
No patch attached because it's quite large. I apologize for the
length, but considering this replaces a library and introduces a
new struct it meant a new file and changing calls everywhere.
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/iface/
iface.h - Header file explaining the iface API. iface_t structure
replacing pumpNetIntf and networkDeviceConfig, and all of the
functions.
iface.patch - The changes, it's about 90% complete at this point.
*.txt - Explanations and notes.
This patch removes anaconda's use of libdhcp,
Why?
How will your patch improve Anaconda?[1]
libdhcp replaced libpump around F-5 or so. It's been nothing but
trouble since then as it just wraps the client daemons and provides a
sloppy control system around talking to them. And the dhcp clients
don't even get executed correctly via this library anyway. It's been
a real pain to keep working and it just needs to go.
So, the patch has us directly configuring interfaces using libnl
(which is used by NM), and running the actual client daemons for dhcp
and dhcpv6 when the user requests configuration that way. The same
way it run on the target system.
How is/will Network Manager be better?
It's what the final system uses by default now and it's what we [the
installer team/distribution] would like to ultimately use for network
interface configuration during installation. If it's good enough for
the final system, it should be good enough for the installer. So,
it's more about using the same code for the same tasks.
Does the result use less RAM?
Not necessarily. But maybe.
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David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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