Hi Gregor

Can you write a note in security/wpa_supplicant's README, so users can
know what the hint is?

Thanks!

-peter


On 2018 Sep 26 (Wed) at 18:58:13 +0200 (+0200), Gregor Best 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.
:
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:       Gregor



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