openrc-discuss

Hi Roy,

Thanks for that expose. 


Roy Marples wrote:
> wpa_supplicant does not support interface hotplugging, so if you need 
> to hotplug a wpa_supplicant driven interface you need to use net.eth0 
> and friends. I did submit patches upstream for this, but they were not 
> accepted.

Could you be a bit more specific on what you mean here?  By 
"hotplugging" do you mean the action that a network is connected to and 
the interface is brought up?

Any chance of sharing those patches?

If upstream won't take patches, where does this leave openrc long term?  
What's the long term solution?

> There is no PPP support in openrc-0.5.0 with the new network script - 
> you'll have to start it yourself.

Understood - how do I get started?  As in I don't yet understand the 
openrc.050 architecture to know what actually needs doing?

Cheers

Ed W