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Subject: Re: devd *NOT* called on wi0 insert?
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In message: <16219.30455.762472.264053@canoe.dclg.ca>
            David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> writes:
: >>>>> "M" == M Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
: 
: M> In message: <18850000.1062771730@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> Larry
: M> Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes: : I have a (within the week)
: M> -CURRENT system.  If I boot with my Linksys : WPC11 V.3 card
: M> inserted : I get the dhcp actions and all is fine.  If I remove the
: M> card, we don't : kill off dhclient.  : : If I boot without the
: 
: Actually, I think devd needs to be significantly smarter.  Consider
: the average laptop: one or more permanent interfaces and one or more
: transient interfaces.

The current devd is smart enough.  Devd's config file might use some
additional tweaking.

: Currently, if bge0 (my permanent interface) has link at boot, it gets
: dhclient.  Similarly to the origional poster, if wi0 is inserted at
: boot, it gets dhclient.

Don't blame devd for dhclient being brain dead.  Fix the brain damage
in dhclient, don't use devd to work around that brain damage.

: devd doesn't seem to do much else.

Devd does anything you want it to do.

Warner