Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:04:06 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Mike Telahun Makonnen <mmakonnen@gmail.com> Cc: andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, astrodog@gmail.com, usb@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: The rc.d mess strikes back Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0903040004y1fcbb086i355cd0113717620b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <584bfc3f0903032212x25831c5bi35d9b637c1896e1d@mail.gmail.com> References: <2fd864e0903020512i22b2c31fg487aaf37fed6398b@mail.gmail.com> <20090302.132522.-432836388.imp@bsdimp.com> <20090302233215.GA53763@duncan.reilly.home> <20090302.181513.1973603215.imp@bsdimp.com> <584bfc3f0903030833k70405609q7e2d3b28c8cf4c29@mail.gmail.com> <20090303180307.GA11134@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <584bfc3f0903032212x25831c5bi35d9b637c1896e1d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Mike Telahun Makonnen <mmakonnen@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> I don't have much time to debug this, but I've not had problems with >> services starting too early on the systems I've been running with async >> dhcp. =A0If there is a problem with the wait process we need to actually >> debug it. =A0If the wait for a route/running interface isn't sufficent w= e >> should try to figure out what is. =A0Synchronous dhcp sucks and yeilds >> justifed user complaints so it would be nice to kill it off. =A0I switch= ed >> the default because it worked for me and I hoped that people would help >> find and fix edge cases. > > Can you elaborate why synchronous DHCP sucks ? The only reason I could see is bringup time. Am I correct in this assumptio= n? >> >> BTW, the change to background by default still doesn't make sense to >> me. =A0At best it shouldn't do anything useful in the async case and it >> entierly defeats the sync case. >> > > Yeah, I realized this as soon as people started complaining about the > changes and reverting that commit didn't fix their problem. I'll back > it out. Thanks :), -Garrett
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