[pkg-wpa-devel] What's wrong with the new configuration scheme, IMO

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

a few comments from my side.

Am Mittwoch, den 19.04.2006, 23:48 +0200 schrieb Felix Homann:
> 1.1 Abuse of /etc/network/interfaces (/e/n/i)
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> As I see it /e/n/i is about network interface configuration. The wpa-* stanzas 
> are not used to configure an interface but a daemon process.

I disagree: wpa settings are not much different than netmask and IP from
a user's point of view. The fact that there is a daemon in the
background does not matter here. dhclient runs as a daemon, too. IMHO,
it makes perfectly sense to have these options in /e/n/i (besides the
secrets, there must be a way to read them from a root-read-only-file).

I agree with your other points though. My conclusion is: Mode 1 is a
great idea with a roaming daemon or for
one-network-and-I'm-always-in-rage setups. The action scripts should be
avoided in my opinion.

Let's see if the Summer of Code thing helps here.

Greetings,
Joachim

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