wpa_cli man page / missing command / patch ready, what's next?

Fehmi Noyan ISI fnoyanisi at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 27 20:22:26 UTC 2015


Hi,
I found sometime on Sunday to add some bits into the current man page of the wpi_cli(8). 

Changes I have done;
* Updated the SYNPOSIS section to reflect the command line options
* Added OPTIONS section for the description of each command line option (such as -v, -a, -G, -g, -B)* Added other supported commands into the COMMANDS sections. I used wpa_cli_commands[] structure contained in the /contrib/wpa/wpa_supplicant/wpa_cli.c file as my reference while adding new commands (I excluded commands that need special compile time options)

There is a .diff file I generated against the wpa_cli.8 found in the "head", but not sure about the next step? 

Shall I create a bug report and submit the diff accordingly?
Thanks in advance....

From: Fehmi Noyan ISI <fnoyanisi at yahoo.com> To: "freebsd-doc at freebsd.org" <freebsd-doc at freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 3:45 PM Subject: wpa_cli man page / missing command

Hi there,

As I pointerd out in this forum thread,

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/wpa_cli-man-page.53181/#post-298766

the manual page for wpa_cli(8) does not include the definition for the "ping" command. The functionality exists, and wpa_cli(8) responds the "ping" requests.

/usr/src % wpa_cli ping  
Selected interface 'wlan0'
PONG

Same parameter/command is well documented in some wpa_cli ports found in several gnu/linux based OS'es.

I acknowledge that wpa_cli -h | grep ping would yield the usage of ping argument, but I wonder why this is not included in the man page.

Regards
Fehmi


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