wpa_supplicant features and compile options

Greg Rivers gcr+freebsd-stable at tharned.org
Thu Sep 6 22:36:59 PDT 2007


On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On 9/6/07, Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> wrote:
>> Greg Rivers wrote:
>>> I connect to certain wireless networks that require the EAP_GTC and
>>> EAP_OTP features in wpa_supplicant.  These features are not compiled
>>> into wpa_supplicant by default.
>>>
>>> Using the patch below works great, but it's inconvenient having to
>>> remember to apply it after every cvsup.  Is there a better way to
>>> accomplish this?  If not, might a change such as this be committed to
>>> enable GTC and OTP by default?
>>>
>> Thanks for reminding me about these config options.  I typically add EAP
>> options slowly based on feedback because I'm leery of pulling in heaps
>> of code that's rarely used.  Also all the code is present in contrib so
>> you just need to tweak the compile knobs.  I'll see if I can make it so
>> you can do it from src.conf.
>>
> I just created the patch to allow these optional EAP methods to be
> used.  See PR 116164
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116164
>

Thanks!  This will do nicely.  Will the patch be MFC into RELENG_6 as 
well?

-- 
Greg


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