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

[Burton, Ross]

On 8 November 2013 17:02, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 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!

Sounds like our QA needs to test wifi more...

Ross