Late reply, sorry. I'm not convinced this really is RC, especially not if the most severe issue can be fixed in udev. For one, it is fairly easy to document and fix by an admin based on that documentation. It's only a real problem for remotely admined boxes, but you kind of do expect admins of those to actually read errata and Release Notes.
Personally I would like it very much if we could be more conservative in setting allow-hotplug. Use auto more for regular on-board or PCI NICs and by default use allow-hotplug only for real removable devices (USB, PCMCIA). However, detecting that seems problematic. I can't really think of a solution that would allow to select hotplug/auto that is not very ugly (except maybe for a boot parameter, but that depends on people reading documentation again). On Tuesday 19 December 2006 23:00, Joey Hess wrote: > Another option would be to make netcfg always add an auto line, so it > has: > allow-hotplug eth0 > auto eth0 My first reaction on this solution was the same as MD's comment on IRC: it's a hack and such a config is probably undefined. Setting this config may, because of that, result in latent bugs in all systems installed using d-i that could trigger at any time in the future by changes in ifupdown or init scripts or whatever. Cheers, FJP
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