[OE-core] [PATCH] wpa-supplicant: add virtual supplicant

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2020-02-10 at 16:42 -0500, Maxime Roussin-Bélanger wrote:
> There is a second supplicant raising, iwd. User should be
> able to switch between wpa-supplicant and iwd. Let's provide
> a virtual package.
> 
> ConnMan, systemd-networkd and NetworkManager supports iwd.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Roussin-Bélanger <maxime.roussinbelanger at gmail.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.9.bb | 3 +++
>  meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb           | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I know its not easy to understand but we don't support virtual/* names
in the runtime namespace, only the build time one (PROVIDES/DEPENDS).

Grep for VIRTUAL-RUNTIME to see how we handle this (its ugly I know).

Cheers,

Richard