Bug 21127

Summary:	The wpa_supplicant man page is out of date
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	wpa_supplicant-2.6	CVE:
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Description w unruh 2017-06-22 01:01:44 CEST

Description of problem:
The man page for wpa_supplicant is out of date. In particular, wpa_supplicant -h listsdrivers:
  nl80211 = Linux nl80211/cfg80211
  wext = Linux wireless extensions (generic)
  wired = Wired Ethernet driver
  roboswitch = wpa_supplicant roboswitch driver
  none = no driver (RADIUS server/WPS ER)

while the manpage lists bsd and ndis, and does not list the currently recommended driver nl80211 except in an example.





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w unruh 2017-06-22 01:02:26 CEST

Summary: The man page is out of date => The wpa_supplicant man page is out of date

Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2017-06-22 09:22:31 CEST

We ship man pages from upstream so it might be better to report this issue directly to upstream.

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2017-06-24 22:38:42 CEST

(In reply to Jani Välimaa from comment #1)
> We ship man pages from upstream so it might be better to report this issue
> directly to upstream.

Indeed. It isn't easy to find where to do that, though.. I hope w unruh can find their bug tracker.

Btw, that part of the man page comes from
http://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/wpa_supplicant/doc/docbook/wpa_supplicant.sgml#n239 to #n283

@ w unruh

After reporting it upstream, please add a link to the upstream report to this bug report.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 3 w unruh 2017-06-24 23:20:28 CEST

I reported it by email to 
j@w1.fi

with two items: One is wpa_suppicant man page not properly listing the Drivers, and the other that wpa_cli man page )( or anywhere else) does not report the varous arguments that wpa_cli supports as listd for example in 

http://hackerj.tistory.com/34
which lists about 130 undocumented commands in wpa_cli
Will try to let you know if I ever get a reply.