RE: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 11:03 AM
To: Olaf Hering
Cc: Greg KH; apw@canonical.com; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; linux-
kernel@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp

quoted

On Mon, Jul 02, KY Srinivasan wrote:

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While I toyed with your proposal, I feel it just pushes the problem
out of the daemon code - we would still need to write distro
specific
scripts. If this approach is something that everybody is
comfortable
with, I can take a stab at implementing that.

Until NetworkManager is feature complete and until every distro is
using
NetworkManager per default the kvp_daemon needs distro specific code
to
get and set network related settings.
Doing it with an external script will simplify debugging and changes
to
the code.

Although,  Network Manager is a good tool for what it does;
it is not appropriate for every distro. It is overkill
in embedded systems, and it's GUI dependency makes it unmanageable
on servers.

Thanks Stephen. I will retain the code that I currently have for the "GET" side and
I will implement a script as Olaf suggested that can be distro specific to implement
the SET operation.

Regards,

K. Y