Re: upgrade to rawhide report

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:02:12AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 	We run the scripts
> What's the story on this "wifi0" "sit0" stuff, btw?

wifi* is people who do their own thing for some reason. Its an 802.* device
so eth* would have made more sense. sit0 is the 6 in 4 tunnel device.

> In an ideal system, you might have a file (probably in /var) that
> defines the autoprobe results; you have a config file (in /etc) that is

It can't be in /var because /var can be NFS mounted. Detail only.

> I don't think we're that far from this now. hwconf is the autoprobe
> results for example. kudzu seems to also look at the manual-edited files
> though. I guess what I'm saying is have some default behavior as a
> function of autoprobe results, and view the manual-edited files as
> override of the defaults - then machine-writing defaults into the
> manual-edited files isn't necessary.

Makes sense.