[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#412179: Bug#412179: D-Bus interface

[Kel Modderman]

tags 412179 pending
thanks

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:51:46 pm Michael Biebl wrote:
> reopen 412179
> tags 412179 patch
> thanks
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> as the D-Bus system activation support [1] has landed in dbus-1.1.2,
> which will be uploaded to the archive (very) soon, it's finally clear,
> how the wpa_supplicant dbus support is supposed to work.
> You have to install the service file into
> /usr/share/dbus-1/system-service and the name of the file must
> correspond to the service bus name.
> In addition, the service has to be started by root to work properly.
> The attached patch fixes these issues.
> Whenever a D-Bus client (such as NM 0.7) will try to access
> fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant, and the D-Bus name is not yet taken,
> the service will be autostarted by dbus.
> This also makes any init scripts unnecessary.
>
> It would be great if you could include this patch in your next revision.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
> [1]
> http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/doc/system-activation.txt?view=co

Done in pkg-wpa SVN. Good timing, just a few hours before your email I did 
start a general cleanup of wpasupplicant...

I guess the new NetworkManager / D-Bus / wpasupplicant uploads are going to be 
slightly disruptive to users of that software for a (hopefully) small period 
of time?

Thanks, Kel.