From owner-cvs-all Sun May 5 13:35:44 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B634A37B410; Sun, 5 May 2002 13:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g45KYh621380; Sun, 5 May 2002 14:34:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g45KYgr25126; Sun, 5 May 2002 14:34:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 14:34:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020505.143435.103661399.imp@village.org> To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net Cc: grog@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 wi.4 From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020505132950.B20161@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20020504113032.D12386@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020503.224516.115910512.imp@village.org> <20020505132950.B20161@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20020505132950.B20161@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Brooks Davis writes: : On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:45:16PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > In short, that's a nice suggestion, but about 9 months too late since : > we've supported adhoc == "lucent's demo ad-hoc mode" in -stable since : > 4.3 or 4.4. I have wireless links deployed that depend on this not : > breaking when I upgrade. : : As the one who implemented this in FreeBSD, I think we should strongly : consider breaking this in 5.0. adhoc should never have been the Lucent : crap and I really regret that mistake. If nothing else, consider the : fact that adhoc works correctly with an(4) cards. I'd personaly prefer : that demo mode be something like link1 since it's evil and should die, : but I could live with demo-adhoc. Sounds good to me. I don't mind breaking it in 5.0, so we'll have 4.x adhoc means what it means now, and 5.x it will just be an alias for ibss or ibss-master or whatever makes sense. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message