On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:44:50PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > This is because the autoconfig code doesn't check the result of the link > detection code and return that to upper layers (see below). I think I'm missing something. Why is the autoconfig code at fault? We'll start in GET_INTERFACE, iterate over the interfaces and take the first one we find that has a link. This one will land in defiface. netcfg_get_interface will overwrite that if it finds a BOOTIF or force it to the first interface if no defif was found yet. If choose_interface is set to auto the interface name in the struct will be set to defif. Now I'm not sure why we're checking for a link in netcfg_autoconfig again without error handling, but why does it try the wrong ifname in the first place? In the auto selection process we should've picked one earlier that had a link already in GET_INTERFACE. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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