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

[Garrett Cooper]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
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> On 11/18/11 03:40, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
>> Gentlemen, good day.
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>> 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.

+1. I consider this to be debug noise.
Thanks,
-Garrett