tags 655479 + wontfix thanks Hi
On Wednesday 11 January 2012, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.7.3-6
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I'm in the process of packaging wimax and wimax-tools in order to enable WiMAX
> support in NetworkManager (and provide user-space libraries for manual use).
>
> Unfortunately, the WiMAX sdk depends on a libeap package that should be built
> from the wpasupplicant source. Fedora has included a patch, initially coming
> from the linux-wimax people to achieve this; and mainly depends on building
> wpasupplicant slightly differently and possibly providing an extra package
> for a libeap library.
[…]
A patch like this needs upstream blessing, but I don't see anything
like that in hostapd.git. While I wouldn't have a problem with
backporting this from future wpasupplicant versions, I'm not going to
carry this patch[1] for the indefinite future without any hope to ever
get it merged upstream.
While I do see that Intel apparently proposed it to upstream more than
a year ago[2], I can't see that a consensus has been reached - nor any
follow-ups.
Sorry about it, but we will gladly reconsider once something like this
gets merged upstream.
Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
[1] which we can't teast easily within wpasupplicant or with simple
IEEE 802.11abgn usage, so it would be doomed to bitrot from our
side.
[2] http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2010-October/021795.html
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