[gobolinux-devel] Network tasks

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 8/1/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> 2006/7/28, Rui Andrada <shingonoide at gmail.com>:
> > On 7/25/06, André Detsch <detsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 7/25/06, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> > > > Is there any objections on moving the
> > > > contents of NetworkInterface to the Network script? The only
> > > > difference visible to end users is that, instead of running 'StartTask
> > > > NetworkInterface eth1' to bring only eth1 up, one would need to launch
> > > > 'StartTask Network eth1'.
> > > No problem, I think.
> >
> I think it's a good idea. So the for loop in NetworkInterface is
> moved, but only executed when no interface is given as argument?
> Seems more intuitive to me. Sometimes there can be too much abstraction.
>
> >
> > I think there's no problem with that, but I like the two script thing.
> > Why was made two scripts either?
> >
> It seems to me that the Network task starts all interfaces listed in
> the NetworkInterfacesOnBoot file, while NetworkInterface is used to
> bring up a single network interface.

Yes, that was their behaviour. The commit was done a few days ago, and
now everything is centralized in the Network task, which can also
answer to individual interfaces, such as 'StartTask Network eth1'.

Cheers,

-- 
Lucas
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