Re: RFC: Change of context-manager fall-back

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Mi, 2012-05-02 at 17:24 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Jens Georg <mail jensge org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hey,
> 
> > I was wondering if we should change the fall-back chain for our
> > context-managers. Currently we fall-back to the static dumb Unix manager
> > if the more sophisticated compiled-in manager is not available.
> >
> > I'm wondering if we should drop to Linux first (on Linux only obviously)
> > and only drop to Unix if we don't have netlink available.
> 
> Sounds good. Lennart even proposed that we simply drop NM context
> manager too if we have a a working netlink-based one.
> 
Yes, you mentioned that, but then you also mentioned that there will be
this zones thing available, i.e. richer information about the network
device from within the NM.