Re: is DEVICE in ifcfg-* redundant?

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 01:33:55PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:

> 1) Are there cases, where the file name differs from ifcfg-$DEVICE?

Yes, life is not that easy.

There is also DEVNAME and in existing (more complex) PPP config setups
I have for example in a file called ifcfg-peer10:

  DEVICE=ppp10
  DEVNAME=peer10

> 2) Could we agree that if DEVICE is not set, it defaults to
> 	${CONFIG##*ifcfg-}
>    ?  (I.e., source_config in network-functions would set it.)

DEVNAME defaults to ${CONFIG##*ifcfg-} and this does not need to
be the same as DEVICE.  So what you actually propose is to let
DEVICE default to DEVNAME.

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