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Today's Topics:
1. Re: connman built with `--disable-ethernet` wipe ethernet
interface configuration on start anyway (Daniel Wagner)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:05:13 +0100
From: Daniel Wagner <[email protected]>
To: KARBOWSKI Piotr <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: connman built with `--disable-ethernet` wipe ethernet
interface configuration on start anyway
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi Piotr,
On 01/24/2018 08:05 PM, KARBOWSKI Piotr wrote:
>> 1) The ignore device code is already there and works. So no more code
>> needed, no code bloat and works.
>>
>> 2) Adding a no-ethernet plugin which adds all ethernet interfaces to the
>> ignore list. Do we want to support interface renaming?
>>
>> 3) Teaching the core to ignore the ethernet devices when
>> --disable-ethernet is used (filter devices out with
>> CONNMAN_DEVICE_TYPE_ETHERNET).
>>
>> Furthermore, not only ethernet interfaces should be addressed.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> The no-ethernet plugin sounds like overkill to me, what do you think
> about a whitelist of technologies? I'd like to tell connman to touch
> only wireless devices, if unset, the current behaviour would be
> preserved. The cleanup would need to validate the interface before
> wiping it tho.
I decided to do a variation of the 'no-ethernet plugin'. Since every
plugin registers the technology driver we just could just that
information to filter out the interfaces. See 'Only cleanup devices
which are supported' RFC.
Thanks,
Daniel
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