Re: [PATCH 05/18] defconfig: enable DBus

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 02:44:08PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> Acquire both legacy and new name, along with introspection. This is
> generally useful for other daemons to integrate with wpa_supplicant,
> notably NetworkManager.
> 
> Debian and Fedora (and likely any other distro that configured wireless
> via NetworkManager) enable this.

>  # Add support for old DBus control interface
>  # (fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant)
> -#CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS=y
> +CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS=y

Why would this obsolete old interface be needed? I'd much rather remove
this completely than promote it by enabling it in more builds..

>  # Add support for new DBus control interface
>  # (fi.w1.hostap.wpa_supplicant1)
> -#CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW=y
> +CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW=y
>  
>  # Add introspection support for new DBus control interface
> -#CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_INTRO=y
> +CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_INTRO=y

These make sense, though, and I'd hope all current programs would use
the new D-Bus interface since the old one is not really maintained
anymore and is considered obsolete.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

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