Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 14:34:35 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <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 Message-ID: <20020505.143435.103661399.imp@village.org> 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>
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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.
Warner
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