Re: NetworkManager-Ddispatcher preup / predown

[Marc Herbert <Marc Herbert gmail com>]

Le 19/03/2010 21:02, van Schelve wrote:
 
> I know about several discussions about pre-up and pre-down in the
> past.  Dan, I understand your position and I can follow your
> arguments against.  But I see a number of usecases where I dont have
> any idea instead of doing it with pre-up / pre-down scripts in
> nm-dispatcher. I know every script in these phases is a potential
> risk for nm functionality.


> From nm site you have no chance to control those scripts and it
> might be that users will come up with problem reports that are based
> on their own scripts.

I still do not buy this irrational fear. If a script takes too long
then the message/popup/whatever can highlight the script name and
carefully hide any reference to NetworkManager. Non-technical users
(and lazy technical ones) will then just google for what they can see:
not NetworkManager. On the other hand people technical enough to find
and read log files are technical enough to have a basic understanding
of what they will see there.

Of course there will be exceptions. People stubborn enough to
systematically complain to the NetworkManager mailing list even when
their ISP goes down. I am convinced these will be very few, much fewer
than the many that currently ask the same question that was already
asked last week and to whom Dan consistenly spends time answering
anyway.

Note that I am NOT pretending that implementing pre-up and pre-down is
easy, the above is ONLY about the "mailing-list noise" aspect of it.


Cheers,

Marc