On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:05:00PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > But you can't possibly believe that this is the right behavior??? To > have to manually interact with the startup every time to keep it from > deleting useful information? Its definitely not right, it needs to keep the stuff. > If there is information that needs to be kept around per-device, then it > should be stored keyed to the device even when the device isn't there. Agreed. That would clean up a lot of the mess I see. > (WEP key isn't one of those... that's per-network not per network-device > and shouldn't > be in the device configuration at all; I think NetworkManager handles it > correctly.) Except when it isn't. Think about wireless in docking stations, wireless USB ports in hotels ..
