wireless-tools/net-tools are DEPRECATED

[Casey Dahlin]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:26:10PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 19:21 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:30:02PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > Looking at the code, the 4-second delay is only used when the device is
> > > actually connected to something.  State 3 == DISCONNECTED, state 2 ==
> > > UNAVAILABLE, so it's performing as expected here.  Were there actually
> > > an IP address assigned to 'nf' then the 4-second delay would be used.
> > > Given that nothing really happens to the device when it's DISCONNECTED
> > > anyway, the logs you see are pretty much a NOP for NM.
> > 
> > I would really /love/ it if NM could log the human readable state
> > names and reason codes, rather than the cryptic numbers.
> 
> Done and rolled into the 0.8.999 (0.9-rc2) release:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=c4b922ed2197657dc4091fb6782e9cb8f9644af5
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/NetworkManager-0.8.999-1.fc15,NetworkManager-openswan-0.8.999-1.fc15,NetworkManager-openconnect-0.8.999-1.fc15,NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.999-1.fc15,NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.999-1.fc15,NetworkManager-vpnc-0.8.999-1.fc15
> 
> Reason codes too.  Just for you Chuck :)  (that's a lie, it's been
> requested before but I figured since Chuck asked I might as well just do
> it)

By me no less :P thanks for writing it.

--CJD