nixos/wireless: make wireless.interfaces mandatory

This is the only way to solve issue #101963, for now. (cherry picked from commit 030a521adc9510207dd9f06b8d8b552ff7d999f9)
2021-06-06 08:38:28 +00:00
parent 3776ceb792
commit 662f2d19b3
2 changed files with 19 additions and 17 deletions
@@ -181,6 +181,15 @@
    <para>GNOME desktop environment was upgraded to 40, see the release notes for <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/">40.0</link> and <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/">3.38</link>. The <code>gnome3</code> attribute set has been renamed to <code>gnome</code> and so have been the NixOS options.</para>
   </listitem>

+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Enabling wireless networking now requires specifying at least one network
+     interface using <xref linkend="opt-networking.wireless.interfaces"/>.
+     This is to avoid a race condition with the card initialisation (see
+     <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/101963">issue
+     #101963</link> for more information).
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     If you are using <option>services.udev.extraRules</option> to assign