On 12/05/18 15:57, Slava Monich wrote: > On 10/05/18 20:07, Andrej Shadura wrote: >> On 08/05/18 18:53, Dan Williams wrote: >>> On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 20:19 +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: >>>> From: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.trudel-lapierre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> Make it possible to list connected stations in AP mode over D-Bus, >>>> along >>>> with some of their properties: rx/tx packets, bytes, capabilities, >>>> etc. >>> It looks like this patch changes the signal signature of >>> StaAuthorized/StaDeauthorized, is that correct? That won't be >>> backwards compatible with existing D-Bus clients and we should probably >>> choose new signal names to allow old clients to continue working. >> Hmm, indeed it does, and it probably shouldn’t. What would you call a >> new signal with the new signature? >> >> Mathieu, what applications rely on the proposed new signature of this >> signal? > > Sorry for the spam, I accidentally hit the send button. > > I don't think that Mathieu (or anyone else) knows the full list of > applications relying on the current signature of this particular D-Bus > signal. Here is an example of code which I'm sure Mathieu wasn't aware of: > > https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/libgsupplicant/blob/master/src/gsupplicant_interface.c#L1987 > > Please don't break backward compatibility. It's not cool. Sure. My question was rather what relies on the new signature (Ubuntu was shipping that patch for about two years I think). I think Mathieu’s message didn’t reach the mailing list, so let me copy his response here: On 10/05/18 23:07, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > I had written this a long while ago to use to inform GPS software, > that would help triagulate using APs in range. > > FWIW, I won't need it at this point; feel free to rework the code to > your heart's content if you can make use of it. :) -- Cheers, Andrej _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
