On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:22:14PM -0800, Shradha Gupta wrote: > As communicated in BZ <2122115>, ifcfg config file support in What is BZ <2122115>? I guess that's Red Hat's bugzilla? I don't think this is useful information for the commit message, since the community cannot access that ticket. > NetworkManger is deprecated. This patch provides support for the > new keyfile config format for connection profiles in NetworkManager. > The patch modifies the hv_kvp_daemon code to generate the new network > configuration in keyfile format(.ini-style format) instead of ifcfg > format. Okay, so the wire protocol for the KVP daemon is not changed. It is just the intermediate file format that's changed. > This configuration is stored in a temp file which is further translated > using the hv_set_ifconfig.sh script. This script is implemented by > individual distros based on the network management commands supported. > For example, RHEL's implementation could be found here: > https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/hyperv-daemons/-/blob/c9s/hv_set_ifconfig.sh > Debian's implementation could be found here: > https://github.com/endlessm/linux/blob/master/debian/cloud-tools/hv_set_ifconfig > > The next part of this support is to inform the Distro vendors to > modify these implementations to consume the new configuration format. > I guess they will figure out the format has changed when they upgrade to a new kernel? Thanks, Wei.
