It's for 6LoWPAN devices. "o.fd.NM.Device.6Lowpan" wouldn't be a valid
interface name -- just skip the leading numeral, that's what kernel also
does on similiar occassions.
For some device types it's not going to be sufficient to tell whether
they carry "IP".
In particular, there's no way to carry legacy IP over the tiny MTU
datagrams of IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN links while an IPv6 transport exist
in form of 6LoWPAN.
Devices of different link types can actually have the same MAC address.
We'll want to use this to find a device of a particular type by its
hardware address.
With --color=auto, coloring is enabled based on the .enable/.disable
termcolors files.
Likewise, when we enable coloring, we parse the color palette from the
.schem termcolors files.
The termcolors files are searched by finding the best match depending
on the terminal and application name. Note, that if we find a matching
file like "nmcli@xterm.enable" we still allow loading the palette from
a less specific file like "nmcli.schem" and vice versa. That was already
done before.
Previously, the search was done by calling several layers of functions, and having
in/out arguments "color_option" and "p_palette_buffer". in/out paramters
here seems confusing to me, as they are state that gets modified and carried
along.
Instead, rework the functions to clearly separate between input
and output arguments.
Also, in the auto-case, check_colors() now first determines whether
coloring is enabled, before even starting loading the palette.
This avoids loading the palette until we are sure that we need it.
The NmCli variables is essentially a global variable of *everything*.
The set_color() function and its helpers only need a particular
part of it. Instead, of passing the entire global state to them,
only pass what they need.
It makes it clearer which parts are actually relevant. Turns out,
it only actually touches a resonable small part of the global state.
They are known to be racy and occasionally break. Especially in
cases where the system's CPU is busy, like during parallel
`make check -j`.
It's likely a bug in libnm-glib. libnm-glib is deprecated, and the
library didn't significantly change now for several releases.
Let's not invest effort into finding bugs in the deprecated library,
bugs that are known to exist. Also, at this point, larger rework
of libnm-glib is not going to happen anymore.
Retry the test up to 5 times, trying to workaround the test failures.
'num_grat_arp' and 'num_unsol_na' are actually the same attribute on
kernel side, so if only 'num_grat_arp' is set in configuration, we
first write its value and then overwrite it with the 'num_unsol_na'
default value (1). Instead, just write one of the two option.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1591734
