[openbeosnetteam] Re: DHCP Client needed,what would stand in theway?

"Waldemar Kornewald" <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry that it took so long, but I had some code to commit. ;)

No problem, I am not in a hurry... :)

> > What do you mean with this? driver_settings can be written 
> > manually,
> > they can be programmatically edited, and written back to a file 
> > easily
> > with the new API extensions.
> So, is the extended driver settings API finished (that one listed on 
> the
> kernel team task list)?

The API is almost finished - expect something to overlay an existing 
settings structure with new data is missing right now. That would not 
only be needed by the settings idea I proposed, but also by the boot 
loader which, at least in R5, allows to add new settings in the boot 
process.

> Or do you plan to extended it to support flattening BMessages in
> driver_setttings format?

No, definitely not (yet). That would require many changes in the 
format, and I am afraid they wouldn't be that nice. That's something to 
think about at a later time, though.
It would be easy if there would be only strings in those BMessages, 
though :-)

> > BTW I guess I will have to write a newsletter article about the 
> > revised
> > driver_settings API anyway.
> Please do. :)

Sure :)

> > If there are more than one file per profile, we should just put 
> > them
> > all into one directory per profile.
> > Also, (independently from the directory/file structure) we could do
> > neat things like have a basic profile that others will inherit if
> > specifications are missing.
> The copy-paste method is a very good alternative. ;)

Copy-paste?

> > So we could have a whole basic configuration and the profiles will 
> > just
> > change the IP address or switch DHCP on/off. I would be okay if 
> > that
> > advanced feature would only be available through the command line 
> > (at
> > first), though :)
> That is okay for me, too.
> GUI programming eats up too much time that we do not have.

And GUI programming is not so easy as it seems - it's actually hard to 
get it right.

Adios...
   Axel.

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