[oe] RFC: auto eth0 and auto eth1 in netbase

[Chris Larson]

On Nov 29, 2007 7:41 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> Rod Whitby schreef:
> > Some machines don't have consoles, so the only way to access them on the
> > first boot after a reflash is via the network.
> >
> > Of course, an 'auto' keyword is required for this, and netbase currently
> > has none.
> >
> > Is there any reason why at least eth0 should not have an 'auto' keyword?
> >
> > Should this be OE-wide, only for Angstrom (koen thinks eth0 and eth1
> > should be auto), or only for specific machines (in which case, does
> > anyone object to ixp4xx having auto eth0)?
>
> +1 for OE wide

Afaik, the execution of the hotplug/coldplug scripts on startup should
generate the hotplug events for the ethernet interfaces and bring them
up that way.  In debian, the hotplug scripts bring them up with ifup
--allow=hotplug [iface], such that you need an 'allow-hotplug eth0' in
interfaces to have them brought up that way.  I'm too rusty with OE to
say how we do it today, but it's not likely that auto is needed.
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