Hi, >>>>> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:34:00 -0700 >>>>> Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> said: sam> Szilveszter Adam wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:56:00AM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > >> Hey list, >> >> a bunch of ports broke on recent CURRENT, similar to the log below. >> Who's responsible for this change - who should I nag to fix the ports? >> > > The commit that caused this is > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2007-July/226628.html > > by thompsa. > > The log says that the ioctls that used to be used by wicontrol were > removed. It seems that several applications relied on this interface > (even in the case of non-wi cards/chips) probably because this used to > be one of the first such interfaces on FreeBSD and then just continued > working (TM). Unfortunately some ๖of the affected apps are esentially > abandoned (eg wmwifi) so I have no idea if the port maintainer can fix > them alone. But it would be nice, because now it is really hard to find > any wlan signal monitoring apps for FreeBSD apart from Gnome/KDE applets. > sam> The old wi ioctl's have been deprecated for a very long time. There are sam> replacements that should be used instead. The easiest thing to do is sam> crib code from ifconfig. The gkrellmwireless2 port has a code to support new ioctls, already. So, just stop treating wi as special should be okay. Please replace files/patch-ume-scan with the attached patch and try it. The patch is compilable on CURRENT. However, I cannot test it, actually. Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO _at_ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume_at_mahoroba.org ume_at_{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/
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