The d-bus does look like what I'm talking about. My problem is that we're operating on devices that don't run d-bus. -----Original Message----- From: Andrej Shadura <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 7:30 AM To: Gladish, Jacob <Jacob_Gladish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: socket interface Hi Jacob, On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 17:04, Gladish, Jacob <Jacob_Gladish@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was curious what people's thoughts were regarding the current wpa_supplicant/hostapd domain socket interface. It seems to me that it was built primarily to support cli interaction which sends/receives strings. I'm not a big fan of that approach. > > I have been thinking that it would be better if both wpa_supplicant and hostapd supported a more structured command/control interface that made it easier to write code against. This could be something like onc/rpc or something more modern that would work easily with multiple programming languages. > > If this is something that people think is valuable? I'd like to discuss some approaches to doing this and then start hacking. I believe both wpa_supplicant and hostapd support D-Bus, which may be just what you’re looking for. -- Cheers, Andrej _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
