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@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ Plugins generally have three components:
1) plugin object: manages the individual "connections", which are
just objects wrapped around on-disk config data. The plugin handles requests
to add new connections via the NM D-Bus API, and also watches config
- directories for changes to configuration data. It also handles reading and
- writing the persistent hostname, if the plugin supports hostnames. Plugins
- implement the NMSystemConfigInterface interface. See plugin.c.
+ directories for changes to configuration data. Plugins implement the
+ NMSystemConfigInterface interface. See plugin.c.
2) "connections": subclasses of NMSettingsConnection. They handle updates to
configuration data, deletion, etc. See NMExampleConnection.c.
@@ -27,9 +26,8 @@ entry points into the plugin: nm_system_config_factory() and
the NMSystemConfigInterface methods.
The plugin also emits various signals (defined by NMSystemConfigInterface)
-which NetworkManager listens for. These include persistent hostname changes
-(if something modified the file in which the persistent hostname is stored)
-and notifications of new connections if they were created via changes to
-the on-disk files. The "connection" objects can also emit signals
-(defined by the NMSettingsConnection and NMConnection superclasses) when the
-connections' backing storage gets changed or deleted.
+which NetworkManager listens for. These include notifications of new
+connections if they were created via changes to the on-disk files. The
+"connection" objects can also emit signals (defined by the NMSettingsConnection
+and NMConnection superclasses) when the connections' backing storage gets
+changed or deleted.