Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > I don't understand why the installer would matter. Nothing would actually > change for the installer. We're sure as hell not going to add UTF-8 there. > The installer's ifconfig would just deal in hex all the way as it does today. > During install finding the right network could be tricky, but that's not a > new problem. Upgrades would just work once hostname.if contains the right hex.
In upgrade mode, the installer must be able to do the same work as /etc/netstart -- the installer has a re-implimentation to parse and act upon hostname.* files. If that behaves different because ifconfig doesn't act the same way, upgrade won't work right in some circumstances. There's a small chance your change in behaviour for ifconfig doesn't matter but I am quite sceptical.
