Re: [RFC] Revise NM behavior for Unmanaged Devices and Assuming Connections (bgo 746440)

2015-11-24 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 17:43 +0100, Thomas Haller wrote: > Hi, > > > Regarding bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746440, > about > unmanaged devices and assuming connections. > > The current behavior is broken and for nm-1-2 this shall be fixed as > follows: > > Basically, let NM

Re: [RFC] Revise NM behavior for Unmanaged Devices and Assuming Connections (bgo 746440)

2015-11-12 Thread Beniamino Galvani
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 05:43:35PM +0100, Thomas Haller wrote: > The last_seen_timestamp is there to eventually garbage collect the > state entry. Note that we write a state-entry for every device we see. Do we need to write a state-file entry also for devices that we see but we don't (initially)

Re: [RFC] Revise NM behavior for Unmanaged Devices and Assuming Connections (bgo 746440)

2015-11-11 Thread Thomas Haller
On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 17:43 +0100, Thomas Haller wrote: > device-state to /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state The > statefile will get the following new entries: > > [main] > # When we write the statefile, we also remember the boot-id > # from

[RFC] Revise NM behavior for Unmanaged Devices and Assuming Connections (bgo 746440)

2015-11-09 Thread Thomas Haller
Hi, Regarding bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746440, about unmanaged devices and assuming connections. The current behavior is broken and for nm-1-2 this shall be fixed as follows: Basically, let NM be less smart and instead of "assuming connections" let it