[poky] [PATCH] wpa-supplicant 0.7.3: fix packaging of dbus service files and fix layout variables

[Stefan Schmidt]

Hello.

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 11:23, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Stefan Schmidt
> <stefan at datenfreihafen.org>wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 10:20, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
> > > ---
> > >  .../wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant-0.7.inc          |    5 +++--
> > >  .../wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_0.7.3.bb         |    2 +-
> > >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > Looks good. Thanks for bringing thsi over from OE. I still have one more
> > fix for
> > wpa-supplicant. Enabling the nl80211 driver. Thats needed for newer wifi
> > drivers
> > and also the default in connman nowadays.
> >
> > Getting this to build is still a bit of a mess. See my libnl2 vs libnl mail
> > oe
> > the OE list.
> >
> > This patch is fine as it stands and should go in. The info above is just to
> > keep
> > you and Yocto in the loop that more wpa-supplicant changes are coming.
> >
> 
> For the ti-wifi-utils recipe it was enough to add -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/libnl2
> to CFLAGS, but in the long term we need to switch nl1 to a non-standard
> location and prefer libnl2.
> One of my current projects at work is to make a WL127x daughtercard work
> with networkmanager in angstrom (both angstrom-yocto and angstrom-OE, so I'm
> going to need your nl80211 stuff :)

The changes are easy enough for wpa-supplicant.
https://github.com/Stefan-Schmidt/openembedded/commit/fd23bc9fcb7f4f438f8bb60ec318b10e706a039c
https://github.com/Stefan-Schmidt/openembedded/commit/7807f04a86a01452405bfcb15e7fbd0c00bb71e1

(Rebasing branch, commits may void).

Personally I would like to get rid of libnl1 eventually. Not sure if this is
realistic tho.

> Anyone interested in discussing this libnlX mess at FOSDEM?

I'm not around this year. :/ Not sure if JaMa is. He had some good points about
it and has SHR build with libnl2 only I think.

regards
Stefan Schmidt