Re: kern/43706: ral(4) man page error for mediaopt syntax, Ad-Hoc or IBSS operation

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/43706; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/43706: ral(4) man page error for mediaopt syntax, Ad-Hoc or
 IBSS operation
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:43:04 +0000

 On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:10:00AM +0000, fhmcatfm%fastmail.fm@localhost wrote:
  > The ral(4) man page states a syntax of "mediaopt ibss", but the
  > syntax actually supported by the driver in this case is "mediaopt
  > adhoc".
 
 Can someone who knows more about 802.11 than I do clarify this?
 net/if_media.h thinks that "ibss" and "adhoc" are different, but
 net80211/ieee80211.c does not and nothing in net80211/ uses
 IFM_IEEE80211_IBSS.
 
 Should IFM_IEEE80211_IBSS be removed from if_media.h?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost