[systemd-devel] systemd-networkd questions

[Tom Gundersen]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Patrik Flykt
<patrik.flykt at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 17:39 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>
>> I'm sure I would like avoid that :) Hopefully we'll be able to reuse
>> the dhcp client from connman, but as the work of converting that into
>> a library has not yet finished I don't know yet exactly how that will
>> work out.
>
> Taking out the glib event loop from the existing implementation in
> ConnMan and ironing out the relative age of it did leave quite a lot to
> be desired. It was unfortunately (again) easier to build something anew
> bottoms up than to insert the existing code into a new context. I fished
> out the accumulated quirks in the current code, though, so all has not
> been lost here.
>
> The DHCPv6 part in ConnMan is of much newer date, looking at it makes me
> believe more can be reused there.
>
>>  Hopefully this will become clearer very soon.
>
> Patches have appeared on the mailing list...

Awesome stuff Patrik!

Cheers,

Tom