Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:34:21 +0000 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: Assar Westerlund <assar@freebsd.org> Cc: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, jkh@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 wi.4 src/sys/dev/wi if_wi.c Message-ID: <200103121134.aa54746@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "12 Mar 2001 06:45:22 %2B0100." <5llmqba6bx.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
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In message <5llmqba6bx.fsf@assaris.sics.se>, Assar Westerlund writes:
>
>Last-time this was discussed, Warner said that he didn't like changing
>defaults in -stable. That's right, but I think here POLA is actually
>having BSS be the default since that's what people expect.
BTW, I've been using the following patch in -stable for some time,
which allows the default mode to be set via a loader tunable. It's
obviously not the `right' solution, but it would avoid actually
removing the ability to do a network install in ad-hoc mode.
Ian
Index: if_wi.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/iedowse/CVS/src/sys/i386/isa/Attic/if_wi.c,v
retrieving revision 1.18.2.5
diff -u -r1.18.2.5 if_wi.c
--- if_wi.c 2000/09/07 17:10:41 1.18.2.5
+++ if_wi.c 2001/01/05 19:21:00
@@ -155,6 +155,9 @@
static int wi_alloc __P((device_t));
static void wi_free __P((device_t));
+static int wi_default_ptype;
+TUNABLE_INT_DECL("wi_default_ptype", WI_PORTTYPE_ADHOC, wi_default_ptype);
+
static device_method_t wi_pccard_methods[] = {
/* Device interface */
DEVMETHOD(device_probe, wi_pccard_probe),
@@ -292,7 +295,7 @@
sizeof(WI_DEFAULT_IBSS) - 1);
sc->wi_portnum = WI_DEFAULT_PORT;
- sc->wi_ptype = WI_PORTTYPE_ADHOC;
+ sc->wi_ptype = wi_default_ptype;
sc->wi_ap_density = WI_DEFAULT_AP_DENSITY;
sc->wi_rts_thresh = WI_DEFAULT_RTS_THRESH;
sc->wi_tx_rate = WI_DEFAULT_TX_RATE;
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