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[Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>]

One thing I'd like to add to this, if it's not already been mentioned or
included in the logic: Be sure MODULE is optional - it's a meaningless
option to those of us that put the driver right into the kernel.

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:05:30 -0400
nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com> wrote:

> Casey Harkins wrote:
> > 
> > I think it might be better to unroll the for loop here and just ask the
> > questions in order. Two reasons:
> > 
> > 1) It will allow dialog to be more specific to the question. For
> > example, the good ole' dynamic/static question could be asked something
> > like this:
> > 
> >   dialog --menu "How should this card determine its IP address?" 10 40 2
> >                 "DHCP" "" "static" ""
> > 
> > 2) The questions asked can be dependent on the input: (hopefully this
> > beautiful tree will work out :-)
> > 
> >         MODULE
> >           |
> >     DHCP vs STATIC
> >     /          \
> >   DONE         IP
> >                 |
> >              BROADCAST
> >                 |
> >               NETMASK
> >                 |
> >               GATEWAY
> >                 |
> >                DONE
> > 
> > If DHCP is chosen, then IP, BROADCAST, NETMASK and GATEWAY don't need to
> > be asked.
> 
> Oh, that's beautiful... I might just cry... mainly cause I gotta recode 
> the frickin thing now! Yay! I love it when you guys do this stuff. The 
> beauty of open source... sniff...
> 
> > 
> > Also, it might be useful for the MODULE message to mention to leave
> > blank for static network drivers. IIRC, the networking.sh script still
> > attempts to "modprobe $MODULE", even if $MODULE is empty. So this would
> > need to be fixed as well.
> 
> Fixed that already. =)
> 
> I still need dialogs for the various things there. Kinda in a time 
> crunch now...
> 
> neal
> 
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