doc: APRanges is deprecated (use APAddressPool instead)

Commit Message

Altous, Salahaldeen Aug. 4, 2023, 12:53 p.m. UTC

Hi James,

I have updated from iwd-1.13 to iwd-2.3 and I was wondering why the APRanges is not working (in main.conf). After checking the source code, I have noticed that APRanges is deprecated, and I have to use APAddressPool.
The doc is outdated.

Regards,
Salahaldeen Altous


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Comments

Denis Kenzior Aug. 8, 2023, 5:02 a.m. UTC | #1

Hi Salahaldeen,

On 8/4/23 07:53, Altous, Salahaldeen wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> I have updated from iwd-1.13 to iwd-2.3 and I was wondering why the APRanges is 
> not working (in main.conf). After checking the source code, I have noticed that 
> APRanges is deprecated, and I have to use APAddressPool.
> The doc is outdated.
> 

I went ahead and applied this patch.  Please note that we prefer patches to be 
sent via git send-email and not as attachments.

Regards,
-Denis

Patch

From f004e679610469f8befbafc0fde06b54185bc305 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Salahaldeen Altous <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 11:56:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: APRanges is deprecated (use APAddressPool instead)

---
 src/iwd.config.rst | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/iwd.config.rst b/src/iwd.config.rst
index 00e31b72..ea366a83 100644
--- a/src/iwd.config.rst
+++ b/src/iwd.config.rst
@@ -74,16 +74,6 @@  The group ``[General]`` contains general settings.
        ``[Network]`` settings for additional settings related to network
        configuration.
 
-   * - APRanges
-     - Values: <IP in prefix notation>
-
-       Sets the range of IP's used for DHCP server (AP mode). The IP should be
-       in prefix notation e.g. 192.168.1.0/24. AP's which are started in a
-       profile-less configuration will use this pool of IP's to set the AP's
-       interface address as well as default DHCP server options. Each AP will
-       get a new subnet from the range and clients will be addressed in that
-       subnet to avoid IP conflicts if multiple AP's are started.
-
    * - UseDefaultInterface
      - Values: true, **false**
 
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