[PATCH 1/2] ifup: remove deletion of ip env

[Sascha Hauer]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 08:55:05AM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> This patch removes the deletion of ip env and changes to the behaviour
> that it use previous ip=$TYPE assignments if ip env is not part of network
> env which will be sourced.
> 
> Example:
> somewhere in shell: ip=dhcp
> \- in case of ip=$TYPE in network env: overwrites the ip env
> \- in case of NO ip=$TYPE in network env: use the ip="dhcp" from shell
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aar at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> Don't know if this patch breaks to much handling with previous env handling,
> but I would except such handling.
> 
> Also don't know if the example is correct or I mixed something with
> global/local envs.
> 
> Maybe apply patch 2/2 only.
> 
>  net/ifup.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ifup.c b/net/ifup.c
> index f22afc9..17e1b2f 100644
> --- a/net/ifup.c
> +++ b/net/ifup.c
> @@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ int ifup(const char *name, unsigned flags)
>  
>  	env_push_context();
>  
> -	setenv("ip", "");
> -

Erm, no. It was intentional to *not* leak in previous settings of the ip
variable to make the behaviour deterministic and not dependent on
previous env settings.

Sascha

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