Re: [PATCH] D-Bus: Add 'wep_disabled' capability

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Il giorno lun 7 mar 2022 alle ore 09:55 Lubomir Rintel
<lkundrak@xxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> Since commit 200c7693c9a1 ('Make WEP functionality an optional build
> parameter'), WEP support is optional and, indeed, off by default.
>
> The distributions are now catching up and disabling WEP in their builds.
> Unfortunately, there's no indication prior to an attempt to connect to a
> WEP network that it's not going to work. Add a capability to communicate
> that.
>
> Unlike other capabilities, this one is negative. That is, it indicates
> lack of a WEP support as opposed to its presence. This is necessary
> because historically there has been no capability to indicate presence
> of WEP support and therefore NetworkManager (and probably others) just
> assumes it's there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>

Looks good to me, thanks!

Acked-by: Davide Caratti <davide.caratti@xxxxxxxxx>

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