Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:45:11 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@freebsd.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@des.no>, Xin LI <d@delphij.net>, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> Subject: Re: Annoying ERROR: 'wlan0' is not a DHCP-enabled interface Message-ID: <B4C6BF50-DB73-42A2-901A-8F6FE42F246A@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <4EF93A8A.8000204@FreeBSD.org> References: <4EB6693F.2020102@delphij.net> <4EF93429.4020404@FreeBSD.org> <78816734-18BA-4B1D-9551-DBD1D9F83716@bsdimp.com> <4EF93A8A.8000204@FreeBSD.org>
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On Dec 26, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 12/26/2011 19:12, Warner Losh wrote: >>=20 >> On Dec 26, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >>=20 >>> <devd.conf.diff> >>=20 >> I like this patch, but only as one of the originators of the original >> kludge. At the time I did it, rcng wasn't as well defined as things = are >> today. If this correction is needed, I'm all for it. >=20 > Thank you for looking it over. You're correct that at the time the = call > to dhclient was added to devd.conf (6.5 years ago) the feature of = netif > that allows configuration of 1 interface at a time was still new'ish, > and not quite fully congealed. Yea, this actually replaces a mechanism that was used in pccardd that = dates back about 10 or more years. When devd.conf replaced pccardd, we = tried to map it as closely as possible and get rid of the (poorly named) = pccard_ether script... I haven't looked into the deeper issue of the bogus error messages, or = if they are bogus at all or not... Warner
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