From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:30:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111017123015.6feec5cc@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGOe-ewqTt+mEBg3WrRJsd9v+6aaMv-5u6AuKNk=QYxenLgaZg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:19:16 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > This seems more elegant than a separate init script, but do you want
> > it to return 0 unconditionally? If the modules fail to load, surely
> > you want the attempt to bring the interface up to abort?
>
> In my head I find it less elegant to be honest. Is it up to a network
> configuration script to load the *kernel* module for the hardware?
Is it up to an init script to do that either? I'd say no. either way
seems wrong, but having the network config check that the interface is
available before trying to bring it up seems somewhat less wrong.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-17 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-15 23:05 [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue CJoeB
2011-10-16 9:59 ` Stroller
2011-10-16 13:27 ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 10:05 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-16 10:18 ` Mick
2011-10-16 22:35 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-16 22:46 ` Alex Schuster
2011-10-17 6:03 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-17 8:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-17 11:19 ` Mick
2011-10-17 11:30 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-10-17 12:39 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-17 12:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-17 12:40 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-10-17 13:09 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-16 10:43 ` Mick
2011-10-16 12:59 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-16 15:05 ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 15:29 ` Matthew Finkel
2011-10-16 16:08 ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 17:37 ` Mick
2011-10-16 19:19 ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 20:43 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-16 14:52 ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 16:02 ` Mick
2011-10-16 21:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-16 22:03 ` Mick
2011-10-16 22:04 ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 22:23 ` Mick
2011-10-17 0:24 ` CJoeB
2011-10-18 18:31 ` Colleen Beamer
2011-10-18 18:50 ` Mick
2011-10-16 21:23 ` Neil Bothwick
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