On 06/20/2011 05:09 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > I'm considering drop the network hotplug support from the 'network' > service. This is the code that would automatically run ifup when a new > network device appeared, if there was a configuration for it. > > The supported solution would be to use NetworkManager for these usage > cases (or wicd, or netplugd, or conman...) Alternatively, just run > ifup yourself. > > Currently, this would happen in the following cases: > 1. USB and/or expresscard hotplugged ethernet/wireless > 2. PCI hotswap of a network card > 3. Runtime addition of network interfaces in virtual system > 4. Admin manually removes and reloads a driver module > > For #1, those systems are generally better served by NM. > For #2, this is something with such heavy admin interaction that I > would suspect that it would be preferred to handle it manually. (Also, > swapping hardware likely invalidates the configuration in any case.) > For #3, you're unlikely to have a configuration written for a freshly > available device. sorry, I don't understand this statement.... but has me worried for virt hot add/remove of assigned devices > For #4, bringing up the device automatically can cause more issues > than it solves. (We've seen this happen for vlans, for example.) This is done all the time (on KVM hosts) to take down PF driver & load PF+VF drivers for SRIOV-capable devices. > > I'm curious - are there people that still rely on this behavior? If so, > for what cases? > > Thanks, > Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
