On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:52 -0500, Robert Love wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 20:04 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > But unfortunately we do have some regressions right now, and we've got > > to look at how to fix those. If we do go driver-specific in > > NetworkManager, then there really will be a Flag Day where we turn off > > that support and force drivers to be WEXT compliant. If distros don't > > like that, they can either fix the drivers or patch NM (Fedora > > included). I'd like that day to be as soon as realistically possible. > > I am for considering driver-specific support, but I agree 100% we want > to move toward a pure WEXT-based solution, sooner rather than later. > > I guess we should see what we fix by going driver-specific with > wpa_supplicant. How easy is the changeover?
We find drivers that need special-casing, and change the arguments to wpa_supplicant. Essentially, we should default to "wext", grab nm_device_get_driver(), and if it needs special-casing, convert that to the wpa_supplicant driver name. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list