Bug#373180: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#373180: wpasupplicant: `ifdown wlan0` should do what `wpa_action stop` does now

[Kel Modderman]

Modestas Vainius wrote:
> 2006 m. birželis 13 d., antradienis 15:05, ju-s raše.te:
>   
>> I will try to work on that. It was planned but difficult to implement 
>> cleanly.
>>     
> Great.
>
>   
>> I did hint to the manpage, I think . . . Help is always welcome too :-)
>>     
> Yeah, you did. Just noticed while zgrep'ing :-) But it was mentioned in the 
> _last_ sentence of the section "wpa_supplicant as system daemon" which I 
> didn't bother to read up to the end. IMHO, you should at least rename the 
> section to "Available roaming solutions" or something similar. Moreover, it's 
> not obvious that "wpa_supplicant as system daemon" documents something new. I 
> thought it was about going back (i.e. using init script, which I didn't 
> like), so just skipped it.
>
> Btw, IMHO, wpa_action really deserves an entry in NEWS.Debian. It is NEW and 
> prefered, isn't it? :-)
>   

Well, there is quite a story to its appearance in the debian sid archive.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/2006-June/000496.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/2006-June/000507.html

As you can see, this was never intended for unstable, but we are not 
going back, we will roll with the punches.

Furthermore, I think only I have used wpa_action so far, and have not 
received comment from anyone else (I did announce it though).

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/2006-May/000467.html

Maybe its best to "pimp" it when the this bug is fixed, its a bit of a 
show stopper!

Kel.