From: Christopher Larson <chris_lar...@mentor.com> iw uses cfg80211/nl80211, which is the way of the future. wireless-tools uses WEXT, which uses ioctl, which is in deep maintenance mode. See http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/Wireless-Extensions. Also https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw indicates "The old tool iwconfing, which uses Wireless Extensions interface, is deprecated and it's strongly recommended to switch to iw and nl80211."
See also the mailing list thread '[OE-core] iw in place of wireless-tools'. v2 changes: add Upstream-Status to patch, remove duplicate VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_wireless-tools definition. The following changes since commit f07045fcae859c902434062d1725f1348f42d1dd: oeqa/oetest.py: add better package search for hasPackage() (2015-08-26 08:26:37 +0100) are available in the git repository at: git://github.com/kergoth/openembedded-core add-iw https://github.com/kergoth/openembedded-core/tree/add-iw Christopher Larson (5): iw: add recipe from meta-networking iw: inherit pkgconfig iw: obey our target path variables iw: support and enable separate build dir packagegroup-base: pull in iw as well as wireless-tools meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc | 1 + ....sh-don-t-use-git-describe-for-versioning.patch | 43 ++++++++++++++++ .../iw/iw/separate-objdir.patch | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++ meta/recipes-connectivity/iw/iw_4.1.bb | 33 +++++++++++++ .../packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb | 2 +- 5 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 meta/recipes-connectivity/iw/iw/0001-iw-version.sh-don-t-use-git-describe-for-versioning.patch create mode 100644 meta/recipes-connectivity/iw/iw/separate-objdir.patch create mode 100644 meta/recipes-connectivity/iw/iw_4.1.bb -- 2.2.1 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
