Re: Notice: wifi infrastructure upgraded; time to mergemaster!

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:58:09 -0700
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
Received on Fri Aug 28 2015 - 22:58:10 UTC

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