On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:02:12AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > We run the scripts > What's the story on this "wifi0" "sit0" stuff, btw? wifi* is people who do their own thing for some reason. Its an 802.* device so eth* would have made more sense. sit0 is the 6 in 4 tunnel device. > In an ideal system, you might have a file (probably in /var) that > defines the autoprobe results; you have a config file (in /etc) that is It can't be in /var because /var can be NFS mounted. Detail only. > I don't think we're that far from this now. hwconf is the autoprobe > results for example. kudzu seems to also look at the manual-edited files > though. I guess what I'm saying is have some default behavior as a > function of autoprobe results, and view the manual-edited files as > override of the defaults - then machine-writing defaults into the > manual-edited files isn't necessary. Makes sense.
