Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:40:16 +0400 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@FreeBSD.ORG> To: d@delphij.net Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Annoying ERROR: 'wlan0' is not a DHCP-enabled interface Message-ID: <Snqh5lmyPm2YvkGpN1vSomauXwU@g5jH1yj%2BTnAiSdLOy3xs5Jutvhc> In-Reply-To: <4EB72290.8030104@delphij.net> References: <4EB6693F.2020102@delphij.net> <4EB71580.20507@FreeBSD.org> <4EB72290.8030104@delphij.net>
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--ZfOjI3PrQbgiZnxM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Gentlemen, good day. Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 04:13:04PM -0800, Xin LI wrote: > On 11/06/11 15:17, Doug Barton wrote: > > What harm is the error message causing? It seems useful to me to=20 > > know if something is happening in the background that may need the=20 > > administrator's attention. >=20 > It's harmful because it's not an error -- for example, a bge0 > interface which is a member of lagg group, is usually marked > explicitly as non-DHCP. On the other hand, can you give me an example > where it *is* an error? :-) I can't seem to think about one but I > could be wrong here. >=20 > It sounds like to me a POLA violation by the way since it's not the > way it was, but my argument is primarily about "this gives an error > message for valid configuration" and not about POLA. Since devd.conf uses quietstart, there is a way to make everyone happy or at least not so angry: check rc_quiet and act accordingly. The patch is available at http://codelabs.ru/fbsd/patches/dhclient/dhclient-respect-quiet-mode.diff please, test it and report back. Thanks! --=20 Eygene Ryabinkin ,,,^..^,,, [ Life's unfair - but root password helps! | codelabs.ru ] [ 82FE 06BC D497 C0DE 49EC 4FF0 16AF 9EAE 8152 ECFB | freebsd.org ] --ZfOjI3PrQbgiZnxM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iF4EAREIAAYFAk7GRB8ACgkQFq+eroFS7PsdwQD+KGGO5BQKAPN4ExhB6/tR903l 6fXc3u3X8CQ3OhAw0FkBAIVAtibXPtean53jkPyCXCRbQl9CkEEnA0Ij0IP+uYam =Bdtr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZfOjI3PrQbgiZnxM--
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