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

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de> wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, this makes the most sense. I'll change it to /etc/net before committing.

Thanks for the feedback,

Tom