From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RFlQk-0000hF-6i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:32:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62C7121C059; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D621A21C025 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:30:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 22F72803EB for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:30:32 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:30:15 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue Message-ID: <20111017123015.6feec5cc@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4E9A119D.1000501@gmail.com> <4E9AAC83.3050305@binarywings.net> <201110161118.45443.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E9B5C37.7060501@binarywings.net> <20111017091500.5e600736@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs30 (GTK+ 2.24.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/VBfeN=ORfFKd5GUhi/WrKnH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2583db74b7889cd4599af418782b248c --Sig_/VBfeN=ORfFKd5GUhi/WrKnH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? =20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." --Sig_/VBfeN=ORfFKd5GUhi/WrKnH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6cEdcACgkQum4al0N1GQPh+gCgrKD6G7Z1iZBkFfLLmult2suk ENAAoMKe3Wosy8F6hM8xgN8k+iMmLgtn =5G94 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/VBfeN=ORfFKd5GUhi/WrKnH--