Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote:
> This is why my original proposal was to decide from the value of
> netcfg/chosen_interface whether to load/configure all the vlan stuff.
So you would *always* show vlan interfaces, even for regular users on
normal systems? I don't think I like that idea very much.
Note that during most installs the dialog to select an interface is not
even displayed currently (if there's only one) and we certainly wouldn't
want to change that.
> Somehow I managed to miss that, and google seems not to have it in its
> index (yet?). Can you give me some more pointer?
It's also linked in the wiki, but:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/
> Would be just a change in a config option, right? So that's not really a
> big deal and could be done independently of the changes we are
> discussing in this thread, right?
It would also mean a size increase of the initrd for all architectures...
We usually don't do make such changes lightly.
> So, _PLEASE_ consider to activate this
> option independently from the results on this thread. Then, people would
> be able to configure vlans manually even if the efforts in this thread
> would fail for whatever reason...
Please check that it works first and try to implement proper support. If
that does not work out we can always discuss alternatives.
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