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So you're interested in hacking on NetworkManager? Here's some cool
stuff you could do...
* Use netlink API instead of ioctl based ethtool.
NetworkManager uses ethtool API to set/obtain certain settings of network
devices. This is an ioctl based API and implmented in "src/platform/nm-platform-utils.c".
Recently, kernel got a netlink API for the same functionality
(https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/ethtool-netlink.html).
NetworkManager should use this API if present, and fallback to the old API
when running on older kernels. The benefit if this is that netlink provides
notifications when settings change. The ethtool command line tool
also implements this API, however it is under an incompatible license,
so better don't look and make sure not to use the code.
* Add 802-1x capability to nmtui.
Add dialogs to nmtui for 802-1x. This will be useful for ethernet (with 802-1x
port authentication), enterprise Wi-Fi and MACSec. From the GUI and dialog design,
possibly get inspired by nm-connection-editor.
* Add Azure support to nm-cloud-setup.
nm-cloud-setup currently only works for EC2 (and only for IPv4). Add support for Azure
cloud. See for example SUSE's cloud-netconfig which supports Azure
(https://github.com/SUSE-Enceladus/cloud-netconfig,
https://www.suse.com/c/multi-nic-cloud-netconfig-ec2-azure/). Note that cloud-netconfig
is under an incompatible license, so be careful not to reuse any code. But that would
anyway be almost impossible, because one is written in bash and the other in C.
* Improve our gitlab-ci integration.
Currently our .gitlab-ci starts various base containers and first installs
the necessary dependencies. That takes time and consumes bandwidth, we should
instead use more suitable containers. We should instead use ci-templates from
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/ci-templates.
* Ethernet Network Auto-detection
There are various methods we can use to autodetect which wired network connection