[pkg-wpa-devel] Another note on wpa_gui and the new configuration scheme

[Felix Homann]

On Saturday 15 April 2006 13:04, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:52:19PM +0200, Felix Homann wrote:
> > Within the new configuration scheme you have to ifup the interface in
> > order to be able to use wpa_gui at all. That feels very strange to me!
>
> I don't feel this strange. wpa_gui is a gui for talking to an running
> instance of wpasupplicant. It is in some ways a graphical equivalent to
> wpa_cli.

No, it is not only a graphical equivalent it's a frontend providing a user 
friendly way to control a running instance of wpa_supplicant.

> Note that it doesn't handle any handling with the configuration file
> itself. It just uses the wpasupplicant control interface to tell
> wpasupplicant to save the current configuration.

I don't care how it handles the configuration file. You can't deny that it 
handles the configuration file, can you?

> When looking at the source code, I think it is meant as another example
> how depending applications like network manager can talk to
> wpasupplicant, and edit/update the configuration file.

Don't look at the source code, look at what it actually provides. Does network 
manager provide wpa_gui's functionality?

BTW, looking through the source code I can't find anything indicating that it 
is meant as an example only.

> You don't expect wpa_cli to do anything useful without
> a running wpasupplicant instance as well.

Sure. But there are lots of useful things I can do without ifupping the 
interface first.
 
--Felix