A significant part of NetworkManager's API are the connection profiles, documented
in `man nm-settings*`. But there are different aspects about profiles, depending
on what you are interested. There is the D-Bus API, nmcli options, keyfile format,
and ifcfg-rh format. Additionally, there is also libnm API.
Add distinct manual pages for the four aspects. Currently the two new manual
pages "nm-settings-dbus" and "nm-settings-nmcli" are still identical to the
former "nm-settings.5" manual. In the future, they will diverge to
account for the differences.
There are the following aspects:
- "dbus"
- "keyfile"
- "ifcfg-rh"
- "nmcli"
For "libnm" we don't generate a separate "nm-settings-libnm" manual
page. That is instead documented via gtk-doc.
Currently the keyfile and ifcfg-rh manual pages only detail settings
which differ. But later I think also these manual pages should contain
all settings that apply.
Add VRF support to the daemon. When the device we are activating is a
VRF or a VRF's slave, put routes in the table specified by the VRF
connection.
Also, introduce a VRF device type in libnm.
What's actually needed here is an explaination of how the license
applies along with the explanation where to find the full text.
Also, the libnm documentation was lacking the licensing information
altogether. Fix fixes it too.
nm-initrd-generator scans the command line for options relevant to network
configuration and creates configuration files for an early instance of
NetworkManager run from the initial ramdisk during early boot.
This makes it easier to install the files with proper names.
Also, it makes the makefile rules slightly simpler.
Lastly, the documentation is now generated into docs/api, which makes it
possible to get rid of the awkward relative file names in docbook.
Otherwise the types links would be dangling or resolved to slightly
irrelevant documentation in libnm or completely irrelevant documentation
in libnm-util.
May use a lot of improvement (actually documenting the names and
objects that use the interfaces in question), but at least this looks a
lot better on developer.gnome.org.
Even Fedora is no longer shipping the WiMAX SDK, so it's likely we'll
eventually accidentally break some of the code in src/devices/wimax/
(if we haven't already). Discussion on the list showed a consensus for
dropping support for WiMAX.
So, remove the SDK checks from configure.ac, remove the WiMAX device
plugin and associated manager support, and deprecate all the APIs.
For compatibility reasons, it is still possible to create and save
WiMAX connections, to toggle the software WiMAX rfkill state, and to
change the "WIMAX" log level, although none of these have any effect,
since no NMDeviceWimax will ever be created.
nmcli was only compiling in support for most WiMAX operations when NM
as a whole was built with WiMAX support, so that code has been removed
now as well. (It is still possible to use nmcli to create and edit
WiMAX connections, but those connections will never be activatable.)
Certain build configurations (like --enable-gtk-doc
--disable-introspection) were broken with respect to nm-setting-docs.
Fix this. Also, we don't require just gobject-introspection, we need
pygobject specifically as well.
