[pkg-wpa-devel] Driver autodetection

[Kel Modderman]

Kel Modderman wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Beginning with wpasupplicant_0.4.8-1, hotplug support is now only a
>> matter of calling 'ifup $IFACE', which I don't think can be handled
>> within the wpasupplicant package. So I'm retitling this bug to indicate
>> that we should focus on the driver detection here.
>>
>> hotplug has been deprecated in favor by udev. Here is how I envision how
>> driver detection could work with udev:
>>
>> The current ifupdown.sh, which is called by ifupdown, falls back to
>> driver 'wext', if nothing else is specified. Before that, it checks for
>> the existance of a file called /etc/wpa_supplicant/driver.$IFACE. I
>> think udev should create such a file with the driver backend which
>> wpasupplicant should use for this interface. (it doesn't really need to
>> be in /etc, I'm happy to check another file, say,
>> /var/lib/wpa_supplicant/driver.$IFACE)
>>
>> We could easily ship such a udev rule in the wpasupplicant package. The
>> advantage of this approach is that the user can easily override the
>> autodetection supplying a parameter 'wpa-driver' in
>> /etc/network/interfaces'.
>>
>> Any udev guru around who could write such a script?
>>
>>   
>
> I _really_ do not see how this can work. Furthermore, as more and more 
> drivers become wext compliant (even madwifi is making progress to do 
> this) this sort of work becomes more and more pointless.
>
> Thanks, Kel.
>

Let me rephrase; I see how it could work :-) , but think it may pose 
uneccessary labour and/or problems in the future.

Kel.