> Hi Mario:
> 	Funnily enough, we already have a PR for that (PR37486).
> "Prominently visible QNET on/off option in Photon (maybe phlip)"
> 
> It's set for "future" but has the following comment in it.
> 

Make it simple label the checkbox "Load qnet on startup".  No business of starting/stopping qnet.  Same as touch /etc/
system/config/useqnet and delete /etc/system/config/useqnet.

> I have doubts about whether or not this is going to be easily
> implementable. The "on" side is straight forward (mount qnet and touch
> etc/system/config/useqnet so that a reboot will automatically do the
> mount). 
> The off side is the problem.  You can't unmount a protocol, so you'd
> have to
> kill and re-start the stack which means re-starting drivers which means
> re-running the enumerators.  You also wouldn't catch any custom drivers
> that
> the user had loaded in themselves.  I can't think of a "nice" way do
> this which is going to be consistent at this point
> 
> 
> 	Robert.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Charest [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:54 PM
> To: technology-networking
> Subject: phlip
> 
> I just noticed in the lastest Alpha that though phgraphx it's possible
> to specify starting with Photon or not ( in the Global option ).
> 
> I would be nice if phlip offers the same thing with QNET, then no need
> to manually create the useqnet file.
> 
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