[11:19] <faa> meena: and FreeBSd congratulation
[12:07] <meena> faa: thank you!
[12:46] <meena> So, I'm trying to implement an ifconfig parser for net/*bsd; and I'm trying to figure out where best to put it, because the equivalent of that thing would be all the `/sys` reading methods / functions in Linux land. in BSD, an ifconfig -a would give us all that info; and I'd like to put it into a structured form… a structured form already exists:
[12:46] <meena> NetworkState but doesn't seem to be used for any such thing
[14:42] <holman> cjp256: Morning! Thanks for the follup in #1725.
[14:42] <holman> Do you think the potential work items there are release blockers, or is that work that could go into 22.4?
[14:42] <holman> If not required in 22.3 I'll move forward with release, but I wanted to double check with you first :)
[16:31] <cjp256> holman: i'd be more comfortable with the error handling addressed for the update_metadata_is_supported path + the instance id fix.  I have the latter one in queue I'm less sure about the former.  If we raise an exception instead of returning False, I assume cloud-init will exit/fail early and what state would we be in?  I'll talk to Anh
[19:11] <holman> cjp256: No problem, sounds good. I reviewed and merged the instance id fix. I'll let blackbox speak to the exception / false bit, seems like he had thoughts on that (blackbox isn't around today, so it will probably be tomorrow).
[19:21] <faa> meena: yes parsing ifconfig is hard, some utils updated and now parsing friendly example netstat -A --libxo json
[19:23] <meena> faa: I would like to add --libxo to ifconfig… but that will take a while to trickle down
[19:24] <meena> faa, but it's not about how tricky it is, it's about where it structurally best fits these days
[19:25] <meena> a lot has changed since i last worked on cloud-init 
[19:30] <faa> yes is old dream https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25447 but now early developed netlink https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33975
[20:07] <meena> faa: libifconfig via ffi was another idea suggested
[20:07] <meena> i just feel for most admins, libxo is a lot more useful