[OE-core] [RFC] wpa-supplicant - enable CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW in config

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 07:33 -0800, Steve Sakoman wrote:
> I've begun using Yocto 1.5 (dora) for several client projects over the
> past few weeks.
> 
> I noticed that images that included connman and wpa-supplicant always
> failed to enable the wifi technology properly.  The visible error
> indication in the log:
> 
> src/technology.c:technology_get() No matching drivers found for wifi
> 
> After many hours of debugging I finally figured out that this was due
> to a missing option in wpa-supplicant (CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW)
> 
> Adding a bbappend for wpa-supplicant with this option enabled fixed
> the issue and connman now handles wifi interfaces as expected.
> 
> Was there a particular reason CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW wasn't enabled?

This sounds like a default that should be enabled. Please send a patch!

Cheers,

Richard