On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 11:04 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On 10/26/06, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While wpa_supplicant is certainly the main client for stuff directly > > related to setting up a connection, there are quite a few other users of > > general WE calls to pull information out of the card, or to receive scan > > events. > > How about we just ditch iwconfig completely and move on to > wpa_supplicant/wpa_cli as our next userspace application with > nl80211/cg80211 as our new API for usersapce-->kernel communication? > As you point out, wpa_supplicant already does a lot for us -- and > several distributions already rely on it. Some work is required but I > think its worth it. If we do a complete move from WE to nl80211 it > would be transparent to the users too.
The one blocker I can think of here is startup scripts on various distributions. Most of those are shell, and they usually rely on iwconfig quite heavily. Getting those converted to wpa_supplicant wouldn't be a trivial amount of work, but it wouldn't be a ton either. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
