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  • From: Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>
  • To: nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Building a better init system a GNU way - was SMGL and crisis managemen
  • Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:51:08 -0700

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
>
> --
> "You can fool some of the people all of the time
> --and those are the ones you have to concentrate on!"
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