Eric> 906: why not add a new WL_ENC_WPA type? Quaker> Considering the wificonfig, and wificonfig on OpenSolaris, and Quaker> many users on OpenSolaris who are using wificonfig, if add this type, Quaker> will cause incompitable problem between wificonfig and drivers, since Quaker> wificonfig desn't know what is WL_ENC_WPA.
Eric> now that dladm with wifi is available, I'd think that more people would Eric> be using it instead of wificonfig. also, since these ioctls are private Eric> interfaces, I'd prefer not to be constrained by them. I believe we've Eric> introduced binary-incompatible changes when dladm-wifi was putback, so Eric> why can't we do that now? Quaker> Since the wificonfig is still not obsolete, and there are a lot of Quaker> users of OpenSolaris who are using wificonfig, I suggest we keep Quaker> compatibility to avoid confusion. I agree with Eric: wificonfig is a stop-gap measure that was only intended to last until dladm and NWAM could provide more complete and user-friendly solutions. Concentrate on doing the Right Thing [tm] with respect to the future, not the past. -- John http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
