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| author |   Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com> | 2015-08-28 13:23:03 -0700 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-08-31 12:24:19 +0100 |
| commit | 0c21e207537deb1c0290be631b4b7d84fba32842 (patch) | |
| tree | 180e7a49213317363d23738eadf6acb0f8b42a46 | |
| parent | bc5401009332eb639d73fa4cbba217ff6899c787 (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-0c21e207537deb1c0290be631b4b7d84fba32842.tar.gz | |
packagegroup-base: pull in iw as well as wireless-tools
As was discussed in the commit which adds iw:
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."
wireless-tools is kept as well for now for compatibility reasons, until we
have verified that all the network configuration mechanisms are using iw.
This adds VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_wireless-tools as a distro convenience.
Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc index 8d92c2e362..9f84d5ced2 100644 --- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc +++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_update-alternatives ?= "update-alternatives-opkg" VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_apm ?= "apm" VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_alsa-state ?= "alsa-state" VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_getopt ?= "util-linux-getopt" +VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_wireless-tools ?= "iw wireless-tools" # # Default recipe providers diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb index 262d65f5dc..9e40b28528 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-ipsec = "\ # SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-wifi = "WiFi support" RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-wifi = "\ - wireless-tools \ + ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_wireless-tools} \ ${@bb.utils.contains('COMBINED_FEATURES', 'pcmcia', 'hostap-utils', '',d)} \ ${@bb.utils.contains('COMBINED_FEATURES', 'pci', 'hostap-utils', '',d)} \ wpa-supplicant" |