[pkg-wpa-devel] What's wrong with the new configuration scheme, IMO

[Alexej Davidov]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:40:56 +1000
Kel Modderman <kelrin at tpg.com.au> wrote:

> Felix Homann wrote:
> > [...]
> And why bother if there are plans already in place to make a
> "wifiroamd"?
I agree with most of Felix' points. I also agree with Kel, that many of
the mentioned issues won't be issues any more, as soon as there is some
"wifiroamd". The problem, I think, was bad timing. Changing the
configuration scheme with wifiroamd in mind which does exist yet. Thus
breaking the working config of many people, who now have to wait for
wifiroamd to get back a setup that has worked well for them. 

> >> Dbus interface in the new wpa_supplicant coupled with a dbus aware
> >> dhcp-client would be a nice solution too ; )
> >>     
> >
> > Maybe, but why not first look what can be done with tools that
> > already exist? 
> It already exists, see the changelog of the upstream development
> (0.5) series of wpa_supplicant for more info. I am very tempted to
> begin packaging this beast.

Do we really need a dependency to dbus? There is hotplug/udev, where
you can do all kind of fancy stuff with hardware on detection. Then
there is ifplugd which takes care of network interfaces going down or
up. I think this is the most flexible and powerful solution without the
introduction of additional requirements. dbus, as I understand it, is
mainly used by Desktops and GUI applications. I don't think it's a good
idea for such a basic thing as networking to depend on such a
high-level thing as dbus.

Regards,
A.