nmcli used the GParamSpec doc strings to get property descriptions,
but they will be going away. Generate a .c file from the new XML
setting docs file, and link that into nmcli.
Add generate-setting-docs.py, based on tools/generate-settings-spec.c,
which generates a simple XML file describing all libnm setting
properties (still getting the default values via GParamSpec
introspection like generate-settings-spec.c does, but getting the
documentation out of the gtk-doc strings in the GIR file instead).
Make Wi-Fi support a plugin using the new device factory interface.
Provides a 7% size reduction in the core NM binary.
Before After
NM: 1154104 1071992 (-7%)
Wi-Fi: 0 110464
(all results from stripped files)
NetworkManager stopped touching /etc/hosts in late 2010 before the
NetworkManager 0.8.1 release. The code in nm-policy-hosts.c's only
purpose is to remove any of the entries that NetworkManager added long
ago.
I think we're at the point where people have already upgraded to
NetworkManager 0.8.1 or later and thus this code would be a NOP. The
only risk is that some stale /etc/hosts entries will be left if you
upgrade from NM 0.8 or lower to anything higher than that.
FWIW, Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) ships NM 0.8.0 and SLES11 ships NM 0.7.0, so
if users of these distros upgraded to a later NetworkManager they might
run into the stale entries issue if we remove this code from NM. But
given how old these distros are, it seems unlikely that users will do a
direct upgrade to something 4+ years newer...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729689
Given an IPv4 address and prefix for a shared config, figure out
the DHCP address range automatically. To keep things simple we
allow a max of 252 addresses (not including network address,
broadcast address, and the hotspot) no matter what prefix you use,
so if the address is 10.0.10.1, you still only get a range of
10.0.10.2 -> 10.0.10.254.
But we also leave some addresses available above the host address
for static stuff, like we did before. This is done on a sliding
scale from 0 to 8 addresses, where about 1/10th the number of
available addresses are reserved.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675973
If the interface who's IP configuration is being captured has the default
route, then read DNS servers from resolv.conf into the NMIP[4|6]Config.
This allows NetworkManager to repopulate resolv.conf if anything changes.
For example, if the system does not define a persistent hostname, then
when a device which has generated a connection activates, a hostname
lookup will be performed. The results of that lookup may change resolv.conf,
and thus NetworkManager must rewrite resolv.conf. Without capturing
DNS information at startup when generating connections, an empty
resolv.conf would be written.
Add --enable-modify-system, to change the default for
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system to allow users
to edit system connections without needing to authenticate.
Rather than generating enum classes by hand (and complaining in each
file that "this should really be standard"), use glib-mkenums.
Unfortunately, we need a very new version of glib-mkenums in order to
deal with NM's naming conventions and to fix a few other bugs, so just
import that into the source tree temporarily.
Also, to simplify the use of glib-mkenums, import Makefile.glib from
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/654395.
To avoid having to run glib-mkenums for every subdirectory of src/,
add a new "generated" directory, and put the generated enums files
there.
Finally, use Makefile.glib for marshallers too, and generate separate
ones for libnm-glib and NetworkManager.
For VPN connections, the interface name would be that of the VPN's
IP interface, but the script environment would be the that of the
VPN's parent device. Enhance the environment by adding any VPN
specific details as additional environment variables prefixed by
"VPN_". Leave the existing environment setup intact for backwards
compatiblity.
Additionally, the dispatcher never got updated for IPv6 support,
so push IPv6 configuration and DHCPv6 configuration into the
environment too.
Even better, push everything the dispatcher needs to it instead
of making the dispatcher make D-Bus requests back to NM, which
sometimes fails if NM has already torn down the device or the
connection which the device was using.
And add some testcases to ensure that we don't break backwards compat,
the testcases here were grabbed from a 0.8.4 machine with a hacked up
dispatcher to dump everything it was given from NM.
This pulls in network.target from NetworkManager.service (and not the
other way round), as suggested and agreed on on the systemd ML:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-March/001692.html
This also introduces an auxiliary service
NetworkManager-wait-online.service that can be used to order a unit
after the point where the network is available. When this is enabled
with "systemd enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service" the unit
network.target will be delayed until the network is up, which is
suitable for synchronizing NFS mounts and similar to it.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692008
Due to an error in the loop logic, if there were no connections yet (like
a fresh install or a livecd or whatever) no default name would be returned
and thus ethernet devices wouldn't come up automatically. Fix that loop
error and add testcases for it.
