This was actually eported to me by Thomas, on irc, so I am going to go ahead and open a bug: His /etc/conf.d/net had: modules_eth0="dhcpcd" dhcpcd_eth0="some options, I don't remember which" but no config_eth0, because he wants to use dhcp. He was getting the error message: "no configuration specified; defaulting to dhcp" I will push up a patch for this bug to clarify this message.
I'm not sure if this needs clarification -- the message is specifically that there is no configuration specified for eth0. This is true, his conf.d/net has no config_eth0 line, and so the default config of 'config_eth0="dhcp"' is assumed. If this is an eerror instead of an ewarn, then I would agree it needs to be adjusted, but ewarn'ing on a lack of config_eth0 is no problem in my opinion, and the end user can very easily silence the ewarn if they care by putting in 'config_eth0="dhcp"'
Hi, my intention was: While working on bug 259183 I'd to switch the used dhcp client and to adjust the dhcp options multiple times. While reading the messages while (re-)starting net.eth0 I was wondering about the message "no configuration specified; defaulting to dhcp" For me it indicated that /etc/conf.d/net wasn't used. I'd to double check that my dhcp settings were used. => I was confused by the message if it was telling me "Hey, we don't use your /etc/conf.d/net" or not. The suggestion was to make clear, that it only did not find any IP configuration (config_*) and therefor defaulting to dhcp. Not more.
Ahh.. Yes, this is a bit of a difference in english that might be too insignificant for esp. our non-native speakers to notice. "No configuration specified" means exactly that, whereas your take on it was "no configuration file found". Would "s/configuration/config option/" suffice to improve the message?
Not really, because is "dhcpcd_eth0="foo"" not a "config option"? The Gentoo handbook referrers to two network configurations, a static aka manual or an automatic (DHCP-based) configuration. Why don't we re-use this wording: "No manual IP configuration specified; defaulting to dhcp" Not sure about the "IP", but without the IP it is the same like "config option".
config_eth0 isn't just for static ip, it's for specifying any and all configuration modules or options. Any other variables (dhcpcd_eth0 ,etc) are about configuring those modules (on a per-interface basis or not), *not* about configuring the iface. What about dropping the english meanings from this entirely, and doing: "config_${IFVAR} not specified; defaulting to dhcp"
Perfect!
InGit.
