On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 04:21:55PM +0100, Andreas Grapentin wrote: > While doing that, I noticed that the config parser is much more verbose > than it would have to be, given the simplicity of the grammar of the > config files - I think that if it were to be migrated to flex/bison, > there would be an order of magnitude less code, and probably be more > robust and flexible. I'm not going to believe that an order of magnitude part before seeing a patch showing how this could be done without breaking backwards compatibility with all existing uses.. > Has there been any effort in this direction? I assume this has already > been brought up before, and there are good reasons to keep it the way it > is, but I had to ask :) I'm not aware of such effort. Configuration format has come up, but I don't remember use of flex/bison being proposed as an alternative. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
