[Buildroot] [PATCH] optional DBus support in wpa_supplicant

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Mon Jul 13 18:26:30 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar> writes:

Hi,

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

Indeed. For big dependencies like dbus (or openssl), then I would
prefer BR to just do the right thing (tm) instead of adding very
detailed configuration options for things that only increase the size
with a few %.

In the case of dbus, the minimal configuration (including
dependencies) is around ~1MB, so I don't think it's worthwhile
discussing about 24kb overhead.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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