[Buildroot] [PATCH] optional DBus support in wpa_supplicant

Gustavo Zacarias gustavo at zacarias.com.ar
Mon Jul 13 15:05:42 UTC 2009


Sven Neumann wrote:

> I don't have a strong opinion on that. The DBus control interface adds
> about 24kB to the the wpa_supplicant binary size. People might have DBus
> enabled for some other reason and don't need this feature in
> wpa_supplicant. But then, perhaps it's just not worth the extra
> option...
> 
> 
> Sven

Being the one "guilty" of wpa_supplicant updates i don't have a strong
opinion on this either.
On one side wpa_supplicant has it's own way of controlling itself via
wpa_cli and thus somewhat negates the need for dbus bindings.
On the other side you may not want to fork to call wpa_cli and/or learn
the wpa_supplicant/cli controlling protocol (or other good reasons), and
if you already have dbus enabled those extra 24k probably won't hurt
that much in the global scheme of things - after all people who want to
save that last KB will probably steer away from dbus.
Regards.


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