is DEVICE in ifcfg-* redundant?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Aug 10 12:59:34 UTC 2007
Stepan Kasal (skasal at redhat.com) said:
> Hello,
>
> in most cases, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-foo contains
> DEVICE=foo
>
> 1) Are there cases, where the file name differs from ifcfg-$DEVICE?
Yes - alternate configurations, dial-up, etc.
> 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.)
It's a reasonable default, yes. File a bz?
Bill
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