[systemd-devel] [RFC][PATCH] udev: add network link configuration tool

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Saturday 2013-10-26 20:32, Kay Sievers wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de> wrote:
>> On Saturday 2013-10-26 16:16, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>>>
>>>The tool is configured by .link files in /etc/net/links/ (with the usual
>>>overriding logic in /run and /lib). The first (in lexicographical order)
>>>matching .link file is applied to a given device, and all others are ignored.
>>
>> Is there anything else in /etc/net that we need another subdirectory,
>> /etc/net/links?
>
>There will probably be config for DNS, NTP, and all these things in
>the future, therefore we need a subdirectory for these files.
>[...] The 3 types [link, netif, ...] could maybe live in one directory 
>though.

Indeed I was thinking along that line: Because they have different 
suffixes, a wildcard - for where such will be used - would be 
unambiguous enough to allow them to share a dir.