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

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 10:55, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

Indeed. Nothing in Debian really uses it at the moment:

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej

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