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bin/39428: wpa_supplicant.conf(5) describes `ap_scan' option vaguely
>Number: 39428
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: wpa_supplicant.conf(5) describes `ap_scan' option vaguely
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 29 05:05:01 +0000 2008
>Originator: Taylor R Campbell <campbell%mumble.net@localhost>
>Release: NetBSD 4.0_STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD smalltalk.localdomain 4.0_STABLE NetBSD 4.0_STABLE
(RIAXEN3_DOM0) #4: Sat Aug 23 06:25:39 UTC 2008
riastradh%smalltalk.localdomain@localhost:/home/riastradh/netbsd/4/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/RIAXEN3_DOM0
i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
Quoth wpa_supplicant.conf(5) on the `ap_scan' option:
Access point scanning and selection control; one of 0,
1 (default), or 2. Only setting 1 should be used with
the wlan(4) module; the other settings are for use on
other operating systems.
Presumably the reference to wlan(4) is an artefact of Linux,
which is undoubtedly the reference point of `other operating
systems', and should be omitted. The rest of the description
is as non-descriptive as one could imagine. Either the option
should be omitted altogether, if NetBSD is excluded from `other
operating systems', or the description should describe the
option's effects, particularly in a more user-visible manner
than doc/driver_wrapper.doxygen.
P.S. So trivial that I could not bear to file another PR for
it: there is a missing full stop at the end of line 257
(one-based):
Note that by default wpa_supplicant(8) is compiled with
EAP support
>How-To-Repeat:
Type `man wpa_supplicant.conf', and try to make sense of the
`ap_scan' option.
>Fix:
Once I understand the wpa_supplicant code well enough to
explain what `ap_scan' actually affects, I'll suggest a patch,
if no one else beats me to it.
P.S. Add a full stop to line 257.
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