On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 19:28 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On Thu, 09.10.14 18:59, Elad Alfassa (elad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > - no integration with NetworkManager, unaware of NTP servers from > > > > > DHCP > > > > > > > > Well it is not hooked up with NM but it *is* hooked up with networkd > > > > via its native API, and hence even picks up manually configured > > > > per-connection NTP servers. > > > > > > I really want to see networkd in Fedora by default. What are the > > > plans/timeframe for that? How does it play together with NM? > > > > networkd doesn't do WLAN really (well, you can run it together with > > wpa_supplicant, and configure both individually, but that's not > > particularly nice. networkd currently also lacks a bus interface > > (since it runs in early boot + initrd, where dbus-daemon is not > > available currently), and that stalls on kdbus. > > > > networkd as it is right now is great for servers, or the initrd, to > > run inside containers or for a lot of the embedded usecases. It's not > > suitable for the desktop usecase. > > > > Lennart > > > > -- > > Lennart Poettering, Red Hat > > -- > > desktop mailing list > > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop > > > > Okay, got it. > Speaking of the far future, will networkd ever be suitable for desktop > usecases? Will NM interface with it in some way to provide the missing > functionality? > If networkd is not good (yet?) for desktop, and timesyncd needs it for a > functionality that is important for many people, then I guess timesyncd > will need to learn to work with NetworkManager if you want to have it in > Workstation (or convince people that DHCP-provided NTP servers are not > something they want to support). I'd love to have timesyncd and resolved from systemd play well with NetworkManager, but unfortunately upstream systemd is not moving very quickly on these services grabbin/accepting information from sources other than systemd-networkd. Dan -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
