On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Da Rock <freebsd-...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: > On 08/19/12 03:23, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Saturday 18 August 2012 13:47:29 Da Rock wrote: >>> >>> On 08/18/12 13:32, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there any reason we don't build with that option? >>> >>> You know, I was wondering that myself but I wasn't exactly sure whether >>> to ask or not :) >> >> Historical reasons I guess, our config matches the default >> wpa_supplicant config. I don't see any technical reason not to >> enable that and bunch of other exotic stuff. >> >> Though, as you've already noticed, one can count the number of >> user who benefit from such a change on one hand.. ;) >> Not sure it's worth the effort, though, if someone wants to do >> the work, fine with me. >> > True on that one :) > > But then again, there are not many as tenacious as I am, and it is not clear > that it has not been enabled anywhere. If the build is not worth it, perhaps > some documentation to point a user to what can be added to the build? At > least that way if someone is intent enough to find the info they can do > something about it? Such as myself; if I had of known it needed the option > it might have saved me several weeks of messing around. > > Just a note in the man pages might do, as well as a wiki, or the handbook.
Updating the man page is on my TODO list. It already mentions options which are enabled/disabled by default and also refers to make.conf, but some information is clearly outdated and/or no longer valid. -- Bernhard _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
