[Kde-hardware-devel] Solid::Control not finding local loopback

[Will Stephenson]

On Friday 18 December 2009 00:55:39 David Hubner wrote:
> Is this because networkmanager does not provide information on the loopback
>  device though the dbus interface? 

That's correct - AFAIK it was never interesting to me the networkmanager folks 
because our main networking priority is getting laptop users on the internet.  

> I can provide a patch for this problem, i am just wondering what the 
> situation on the subject is? :)

What's the use case for adding it?  I can see the completeness angle, but I 
don't want us to add code without good reason, that would make the 
NetworkManager backend (for example) a hybrid of NM's view of the world and 
the kernel's, requiring filtering to avoid confusing NM with synthetic 
loopback device unique identifiers.


> I am using 4.3.4 not 4.4 beta so if this is fixed or if this has been
> talked about i am sorry :)

You're the first one to bring it up :)

Will