> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 11:03 AM
> To: Olaf Hering
> Cc: Greg KH; [email protected]; [email protected]; linux-
> [email protected]; [email protected]; KY Srinivasan
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 02, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> > > While I toyed with your proposal, I feel it just pushes the problem
> > > out of the daemon code - we would still need to write distro
> > > specific
> > > scripts. If this approach is something that everybody is
> > > comfortable
> > > with, I can take a stab at implementing that.
> >
> > Until NetworkManager is feature complete and until every distro is
> > using
> > NetworkManager per default the kvp_daemon needs distro specific code
> > to
> > get and set network related settings.
> > Doing it with an external script will simplify debugging and changes
> > to
> > the code.
> 
> Although,  Network Manager is a good tool for what it does;
> it is not appropriate for every distro. It is overkill
> in embedded systems, and it's GUI dependency makes it unmanageable
> on servers.

Thanks Stephen. I will retain the code that I currently have for the "GET" side 
and
I will implement a script as Olaf suggested that can be distro specific to 
implement
the SET operation.

Regards,

K. Y
 

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