What changed in rc.d infrastructure in last months?

[Adrian Chadd]

On 26 October 2015 at 01:27, Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello NGie,
>
> Sunday, October 25, 2015, 11:09:03 PM, you wrote:
>
>
>> Ok, this is really not making sense from a design perspective.
>> `ifconfig_<foo>` is being overloaded for starting up hostap’s (even though
>> ifconfig itself doesn’t support hostap — only `wlanmode ap`). I don’t
>  ifconfig doesn't support dhcp either, but dhclient is run via "DHCP" in
>  `ficonfig_<foo>`
>
>> understand why it was done this way instead of just creating additional
>> variables for `hostapd_<foo>`
>  Long time ago there was simple `hostapd_enable` and `hostapd_interfaces` :)
>  But it doesn't allow to automagically start hostapd for hotplugged (i.e.
>  USB) interfaces. On the other hand, automatic DHCP on hot-plugged
>  interfaces have sense and automatic hostapd doesn't, IMHO.

This sounds like the same issue as double-running wpa_supplicant.

I thought this was fixed already :( Would someone please figure out a
cleanish solution to this? I'd really appreciate it.


-a