Bug 821439

Summary:	net-wireless/wpa_supplicant: Recommend to add -M option to relevant manual pages and wiki
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Teng Zhang <3090661328>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) <zerochaos>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	maffblaster, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=2e997eece5776eca0a99d53893e343539f9f8eb2
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Teng Zhang 2021-11-03 10:59:50 UTC

Based on the Gentoo wiki ---> wpa_supplicant ---> the diff page of gitweb,
the -M option(CONFIG_MATCH_IFACE option) are used to descirbe matching rules 
with a wildcard interface name. 

But the description doesn't appear in the wpa_supplicant wiki page and relevant 
pages clearly, which makes some confuse to those who are not familiar with these 
things.

Advice: I think it's maybe better to add the description of -M option to the wpa_
suppliant wiki page(using things like "Tips" or "Comment" at the beginning of the 
page),wpa_supplicant manual page and wpa_supplicant.conf manual page.

Comment 1 Matthew Marchese Gentoo Infrastructure

2022-08-05 04:13:52 UTC

The main namespace of our wiki is publicly modifiable. This content can be added by your (or anyone who is interested). Our devs are busy enough, so this is a WONTFIX from the wiki team... That stated, it looks like someone (perhaps the creator of this bug?) did note the option in this change:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Wpa_supplicant&type=revision&diff=819370&oldid=819193

If there is something else missing you think is missing from this page, kindly create an account and add it:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wpa_supplicant

Thank you.