[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#373180: Bug#373180: ifdown wlan0 again
Kel Modderman
kel at otaku42.de
Fri Jan 11 11:45:06 UTC 2008
On Friday 11 January 2008 21:27:36 Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I also find it quite un-nice to be able to run ifup ath0 to enable
> wpa_supplicant, but not ifdown ath0 to stop it.
>
> Why exactly is is that you can’t provide this functionality?
>
> Is it because ifupdown insists that it needs some values with manual
> method to consider the interface as up? What happens if you use dummy
> values there? Or maybe patch ifupdown to have a "none" method that just
> runs the hook scripts and doesn’t do anything else?
When ifupdown in unstable supports "-o VAR=$value" on the command line, I can
see a fix this bug as being possible. I need some rock solid way to
differentiate who called ifdown, the user, or the wpa_cli daemon listening to
wpa_supplicant events.
ifupdown in experimental supports this.
Thanks, Kel.
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