ifupdown enhancement

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:11:17AM +0100, Markus Wigge wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I submitted a feature request some time ago to add a "manual" target to
>ifupdown like it exists in debian, see:
>http://bugs.busybox.net/view.php?id=1057
>
>This is usefull to execute pre-up scripts to initialize bridging
>interfaces for example.
>
>Unfortunately nobody seemed to have a look on it so far, so my question:
>Is anybody else interested in it? We use it in FreeWRT for network
>config stuff.

ifupdown calls run-parts. Why can't you use a pre-up.d/ script to setup
bridging? Just curious..