Bug#454493: Display PCI slot for nics, if available
dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> writes:
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> In fact, as to Otavio's point, it probably makes sense to do the
> module loading outside of hw-detect (e.g. his acpi-support-udeb
> suggestion), and just let hw-detect use the interface if its
> available.
Yes, I think it's starting to makes sense to have something like that
and put all this in one cannonical place. Does someone objects if I
start to prepare this udeb for review?
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>> We've had other requests to provide additional identification of NICs (see
>> #450605 and merged BRs) and so far we (or at least I) have been thinking of
>> some way to display the MAC address, possibly by allowing to switch between
>> display of the current descriptions and MAC address.
>
> That would help some users, but I'd like to see us find a more general
> way to display all the available information that a user might use for
> identification. And I expect a separate display, or "view" for each
> may prove not to scale.
>
> I do like the genearl principle of Geert's proposal:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450605#31
>
> With the exception that I don't like splitting the option list from
> the selection widget (and as Bastian points out, its not possible
> anyway).
>
> Some brainstorming:
> * Modify cdebconf to permit per-option descriptions, and use those
> descriptions to provide details about each nic. Frontends could
> use this to implement a "more info" button, or just include the
> description text in-line.
> * Modify cdebconf to support multi-line choice fields. Make each
> interface choice be a multi-lined option that includes things like
> vendor, model, mac, slot.
> * Change the flow from "select iface" -> "configure iface" to:
> "select iface"
> v
> "display info about iface & confirm"
> v
> "configure iface"
> This is probably the only one possible w/ today's cdebconf, but its
> pretty non-intuitive.
I personaly like the description idea since it looks to be more
suitable for the way we have the dialogs now. Others?
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