On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 03:40:54PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote: > 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. Thanks for the pointer, will change this > > > 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. > That is correct. > > 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? Yeah, so whenever they decide to use the latest kernel, they would have to change their implementation to consume these changes. > > Thanks, > Wei.
