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

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Jens Georg <mail jensge org> wrote:
> 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.

True :) Forgot all about that.



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Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124