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Date:      Mon, 6 May 2002 09:42:29 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc:        brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 wi.4
Message-ID:  <20020506094229.V34811@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020505.143435.103661399.imp@village.org>
References:  <20020504113032.D12386@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020503.224516.115910512.imp@village.org> <20020505132950.B20161@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020505.143435.103661399.imp@village.org>

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On Sunday,  5 May 2002 at 14:34:35 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20020505132950.B20161@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
>             Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> 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.

I'm more than happy with this solution.  I wasn't asking for an
immediate reversion.

Greg
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