On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Henrik Hallberg <henrik@k2h.se> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 02:25:28AM +0200, Jouke Witteveen wrote:
Can anyone describe a good use case?
First, it seems like a sane default. I prefer less configuration and reasonable behaviour over more configuration and perfect results. This would change a configuration item to read up on, test and remember, to something that works well enough out-of-the-box.
A somewhat meager argument, since it doesn't tell me when you would need this functionality.
Second, when travelling and staying in different places, it would be convenient to use this hiberate-like restoration.
Potentially useful indeed, but you can already just list all different places you go to in NETWORKS and it will connect to the first one that it can connect to. This works even better than the 'last' functionality, as it does away with the need to connect manually at every location change.
For me, this strikes the balance between convenient and simple, and reasonable. Maybe there's a combination of netcfg-auto-* that does what I'm looking for?
Just netcfg-auto-wireless should largely cover your concerns too. Nevertheless I gave your code some thought and since there was a bug report for the same issue, I decided to give it a shot. 2.8.5 contains the requested functionality. I started with some minor changes of your patch, but later decided to do the whole thing in a single commit. Thanks for your contribution, without it the functionality would not have arrived in 2.8.5. - Jouke