From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 4 21:29:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B6A16A419 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:29:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2086513C461 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:29:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from trouble.errno.com (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id l84LTdhi039268 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <46DDCF48.4060805@errno.com> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:34:00 -0700 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070814) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <1188892560.28297.27.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <20070904203225.GA1895@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> In-Reply-To: <20070904203225.GA1895@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: [Fwd: gkrellmwireless-2.0.2_7 failed on amd64 7] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:29:59 -0000 Szilveszter Adam wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:56:00AM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > >> Hey list, >> >> a bunch of ports broke on recent CURRENT, similar to the log below. >> Who's responsible for this change - who should I nag to fix the ports? >> > > The commit that caused this is > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2007-July/226628.html > > by thompsa. > > The log says that the ioctls that used to be used by wicontrol were > removed. It seems that several applications relied on this interface > (even in the case of non-wi cards/chips) probably because this used to > be one of the first such interfaces on FreeBSD and then just continued > working (TM). Unfortunately some ๖of the affected apps are esentially > abandoned (eg wmwifi) so I have no idea if the port maintainer can fix > them alone. But it would be nice, because now it is really hard to find > any wlan signal monitoring apps for FreeBSD apart from Gnome/KDE applets. > The old wi ioctl's have been deprecated for a very long time. There are replacements that should be used instead. The easiest thing to do is crib code from ifconfig. Sam