Notice: wifi infrastructure upgraded; time to mergemaster!

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Sat Aug 29 00:58:10 UTC 2015


rc.conf changes aren't needed, just the scripts.


-a


On 28 August 2015 at 17:40, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at me.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 17:07 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Gleb's wifi work is in -HEAD now. You'll notice that there's no wifi
>> parent ifnet device now - you have to clone them to have things work.
>> (ie, there's no ath0, iwn0, etc.)
>>
>> So, you need to update your rc.d scripts in order for things to work
>> at startup, or they won't work.
>>
>> I've asked Gleb to update UPDATING with a notice so people aren't
>> (completely) confused by the new behaviour.
>
> This is very bad.  The commit log specifically says rc.conf changes are
> not needed.  There was zero thought given to the upgrade procedure...
>
> --
> Rui Paulo


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