[pkg-wpa-devel] Driver autodetection

[kelrin at tpg.com.au]

Quoting kelrin at tpg.com.au:

> Quoting Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>:
> 
> > 
> > Hardware detection and activation currently works quite nice on
> > modern
> > kernels with udev. My proposal is to exploit the infrastructure we
> > currently already have, and add some hooks to give the
> wpasupplicant
> > package hints which driver backend to use.
> > 
> 
> I have given this topic some thought, and can submit a *very simple*
> driver guessing patch for the ifupdown script sometime this evening.
> When IF_WPA_DRIVER (wpa-driver) is not given, we can look for
> /proc/<driver_knob>/$IFACE for ndiswrapper/madwifi (maybe hostap but
> the
> /proc knobs for it are not updated in the case of interface renaming
> currently) and others. This sort of thing is common in some other
> distributions networking scripts. Also, while I am at it, I will
> satisfy
> one of the TODO items by selecting driver "wired" for non-wireless
> devices.
> 
> This would have the advantage of being valid for older systems
> (non-udev, 2.4 kernels), and the user can always override by
> specifying
> IF_WPA_DRIVER, which we should *always* suggest to do so in our
> documentation.
> 
> If we have this, I'd like to remove the [ -e
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/driver.$IFACE ] stuff also.
> 
> Would that kind of scheme satisfy the reporter of this bug?

Heh, since this wasn't ever a bug, i should have asked:

Would this satisfy you? ;-)

Kel.