Notice: wifi infrastructure upgraded; time to mergemaster!

Rui Paulo rpaulo at me.com
Sat Aug 29 00:40:29 UTC 2015


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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