On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 19:21 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > 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.. Agreed. According to searchcode [1] not much more than 2010's NetworkManager 0.8 uses this. Pretty sure it's safe to remove it. [1] https://searchcode.com/?q=%22fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant%22 I'll follow up with a patch that does the removal. > > # 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. Lubo _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
