Re: [PATCH 10/18] defconfig: enable MACsec

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:25:47AM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 15:12 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 14:44 +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> > > Debian and Fedora enable it, NetworkManager uses it.
> > 
> > Jouni was worried that too many distros still can't compile this due to
> > missing headers/dependencies?
> 
> Yes. I think it still makes sense to have this enabled by default.
> Currently basically all distros roll their own configs, and at the
> point they switch their master/devel packages to use the upstream
> defconfig, they should also enable MACsec.
> 
> If there's anyone who uses a new supplicant with old-ish kernel, it's
> trivial to just comment the thing out.

Having an old kernel is not issue since that gets handled at runtime.
Having an old (and well, not really _that_ old) kernel header files and
libnl is more of an issue since that breaks the build due to missing
linux/if_macsec.h and/or netlink/route/link/macsec.h.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

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