Re: [PATCH 5/9] connection-setting: implement ability to define a master connection

[Thomas Graf <tgraf redhat com>]

On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 08:23 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 14:52 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > Adds a MASTER= directive to ifcfg-rh permitting a connection to define
> > a master/slave relationship. This is intended to be used to implement
> > bonding and eventually bridging connections.
> 
> What are the allowed values again?  Obviously a UUID, but were you also
> thinking of device names too?  (ie whatever goes into the bond setting's
> 'device-name' property?)

In order to be compatible with existing ifcfg files we need to allow
specifying the master by ifcfg name, e.g. ifcfg-eth0 refers to
ifcfg-bond0 by setting MASTER=bond0

Additionally I wanted to allow for more stable references and therefore
reference by UUID is also possible.