Re: [PATCH] Add libgsystem as a git submodule

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin Walters" <walters verbum org>
> To: "Pavel Simerda" <psimerda redhat com>
> Cc: "Dan Winship" <danw gnome org>, jklimes redhat com, "Dan Williams" <dcbw redhat com>,
> networkmanager-list gnome org
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 8:10:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add libgsystem as a git submodule
>
> On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 08:04 -0400, Pavel Simerda wrote:
>
> > Colin, do you have any ideas for the NetworkManager codebase apart from the
> > cleanup functions?
>
> Possibly; the structured logging for example.  NM could tag e.g. DHCP
> log messages with the interface ID, and system management interfaces
> could then show log messages related to that interface.

Any more resources/documentation/posts for that? Sounds nice but I just can't imagine how it works, how 
NetworkManager could use it, whether it's somehow related to journald, etc...

> > > If not, why don't we remove the submodule and just copy in the
> > > header with the relevant macros for now?
> >
> > Or maybe we could make the build system only choose relevant parts from
> > libgsystem.
>
> Let me try a patch.

Thanks!

As a side note, in future, I'll be adding a dependency on Jiří Pírko's libndp and we would most probably like 
to temporarily bundle it for distributions without libndp packages. As libgsystem is a dependency imported as 
a git submodule, it looks like you already did part of my work ;).

Pavel