Annoying ERROR: 'wlan0' is not a DHCP-enabled interface

[Xin LI]

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On 11/18/11 03:40, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Gentlemen, good day.
> 
> Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 04:13:04PM -0800, Xin LI wrote:
>> On 11/06/11 15:17, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> What harm is the error message causing? It seems useful to me
>>> to know if something is happening in the background that may
>>> need the administrator's attention.
>> 
>> It's harmful because it's not an error -- for example, a bge0 
>> interface which is a member of lagg group, is usually marked 
>> explicitly as non-DHCP.  On the other hand, can you give me an
>> example where it *is* an error? :-)  I can't seem to think about
>> one but I could be wrong here.
>> 
>> It sounds like to me a POLA violation by the way since it's not
>> the way it was, but my argument is primarily about "this gives an
>> error message for valid configuration" and not about POLA.
> 
> Since devd.conf uses quietstart, there is a way to make everyone
> happy or at least not so angry: check rc_quiet and act accordingly.
> The patch is available at 
> http://codelabs.ru/fbsd/patches/dhclient/dhclient-respect-quiet-mode.diff
>
> 
please, test it and report back.

Is there any counter reasoning about "having an interface marked as
non-DHCP is not an error"?  I'm still not convinced with the benefit
of having it show an error message.

Cheers,
- -- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	https://www.delphij.net/
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