todo/Nearine_support is where this is being discussed, it was closed as a
dup erroniously.
Spending more time closing dups about this than working on it. :(
This reverts commit ef0e3ac22e.
Sebastian thinks best to revert this:
It seems to me the reason I needed to look at activatable sockets
might actually be a networkd bug, and I was in error about patch 0001.
On my machines (without DHCP), networkd quits after configuring the
links. I thought this had to do with network activation, but that was
probably mistaken. This was obscured by my testing the change by doing
systemctl stop/start on networkd; now that I actually unplugged the
network cable, I noticed no DBus messages are triggered by this on
this machine. Your test case might have had a similar problem
(networkd quitting on idle). Might be related to [1].
On another machine (with DHCP) networkd remains active all the time,
and patch 0002 works there. You might want to revert 0001, though:
Suppose someone’s running no manager at all, so that polling would be
required. Because networkd is still listed as activable, we would
refrain from polling – by mistake, because networkd doesn’t seem to
actually go active if we listen on its bus, and it’s listed as
activable even when it’s not configured. Connectivity-related messages
will come in when stopping/starting the service, but not when
unplugging the cable.
This removes a bit of complexity, and should make things faster
(avoids tokenizing Params string), and probably involve less garbage
collection.
In a few places, it was useful to use Params to avoid needing a list,
but that is easily avoided.
Problems noticed while doing this conversion:
* Some uses of Params "oneword" which was entirely unnecessary
overhead.
* A few places that built up a list of parameters with ++
and then used Params to split it!
Test suite passes.
