[oe-commits] Christopher Larson : packagegroup-base: pull in iw as well as wireless-tools

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Module: openembedded-core.git
Branch: master-next
Commit: 0c21e207537deb1c0290be631b4b7d84fba32842
URL:    http://git.openembedded.org/?p=openembedded-core.git&a=commit;h=0c21e207537deb1c0290be631b4b7d84fba32842

Author: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 28 13:23:03 2015 -0700

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 at mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>

---

 meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc       | 1 +
 meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc
index 8d92c2e..9f84d5c 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 262d65f..9e40b28 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"