[Linux-ha-dev] Re: IPaddr on *BSD

[David Lee]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Horms wrote:

> I was having a similar discussion with Andrew. My 2c worth is to rename
> IPaddr to IPaddr1, then make IPaddr a new wrapper, that calls IPaddr1 or
> IPaddr2 according to what OS/kernel the user has.  That way people will
> get what we think is best by default.  And if they want to do something
> special, they can call IPaddr1 or IPaddr2 directly.

Sounds reasonable to me: the important bit is the public interface always
being the same thing: "IPaddr" (with the same args and same XML etc.
unless there is a really good reason to diverge).

One thing to consider: might the switching mechanism (into "IPaddr-XYZ")
be feature-based (e.g. presence of "modprobe") rather than OS-based?  Just
a thought.

If you think so, a little cautionary checking.  For instance if the script
uses the availability of "modprobe", we would first need a correction to
"configure.in" which currently incorrectly puts a non-null value into
"@MODPROBE@" on machines which lack it.


> Actually, thats a slight revision of my idea, but thats where I'm up to
> now.

Look forward to it!

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