Re: [netcf-devel] [PATCH] Implement ncf_if_status()

[Laine Stump]

On 10/23/2009 12:32 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:34:54AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
>    
>> A couple of questions on this topic:
>>
>> 1) I didn't add anything to ncftool that exercises this new
>> functionality.  Do you see any use to this? (The information is given
>> implicitly by "list").
>>      
> It could be useful to include it in the list output, eg
> instead of
>
> ncftool>  list --all
> eth0
> eth1
> lo
> ppp0
>
> have
>
> ncftool>  list --all
> eth0   UP
> eth1   UP
> lo     UP
> ppp0   DOWN
>
> or some less crude formatting
>    

Okay, I'll take a whack at that momentarily.

I'm also adding in reporting of mac address, which will hopefully work 
as easily as it seems to be getting written...

>    
>> 2) Would it be useful to also add this information to the xml of
>> ncf_if_xml_state()? If so, any suggestions on what it should look like?
>>      
> I don't think it is relevant there, because whether an interface is up
> or down is not configuration information.
>    

ncf_if_xml_desc() is the config, ncf_if_xml_state() is only the 
information we got directly from the kernel.


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