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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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