I was a very happy net/wireless user, though without 802.1X. I'm ok with removal for 6.4.
On September 26, 2018 12:58:13 PM EDT, Gregor Best <g...@unobtanium.de> wrote: > >Hi, > >with the recent(-ish) introduction of `ifconfig $dev join $nwid`, >net/wireless became quite obsolete. > >The only thing that it does that the current implementation of >autojoining in the kernel can't (yet?) do is kicking wpa_supplicant >after associating with an 802.1X network. That can be done manually by >running `wpa_cli reassoc` once the network has been associated with. > >I'd like to propose removing net/wireless, so that it won't clutter >6.4s >ports tree/package collection by doing something that the kernel can do >by itself 95% of the time. > >-- > Gregor -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
