From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com ([209.85.216.54]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RiqwD-0007VF-Hw for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:17:14 +0100 Received: by qabg14 with SMTP id g14so532135qab.6 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:09:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.224.220.14 with SMTP id hw14mr3770460qab.42.1325783389880; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:09:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.224.170.134] ([89.121.200.106]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id co15sm20179321qab.1.2012.01.05.09.09.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:09:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F05D95B.5090604@gherzan.ro> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:09:47 +0200 From: Andrei Gherzan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phil Blundell References: <1325781559-18967-1-git-send-email-andrei@gherzan.ro> <1325781698.28005.132.camel@phil-desktop> <4F05D5CB.2070404@windriver.com> <1325782829.28005.136.camel@phil-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1325782829.28005.136.camel@phil-desktop> Cc: Andrei Gherzan , Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Subject: Re: [PATCH] wpa-supplicant: Patch this recipe order to remove a duplicate defconfig file X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:17:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01/05/2012 07:00 PM, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 18:54 +0200, Andrei Gherzan wrote: >> On 01/05/2012 06:41 PM, Phil Blundell wrote: >>> On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 18:39 +0200, Andrei Gherzan wrote: >>>> From: Andrei Gherzan >>>> >>>> Instead of having two defconfigs we can have only one and append this file with de specific >>>> CONFIG if GPLv3 packages are allowed. >>> As I said the other day, I think it would be better to just have one >>> defconfig and turn off the GPLv3 stuff entirely. Do you know of anybody >>> who actually wants to use it? >>> >>> p. >>> >>> >> Now about that extra config. The idea of having it into a a build were >> gplv3 are allowed,was support for TLS/IA which was designed to be used >> in the EAP-TTLSv1 >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/poky/2011-December/007386.html > Well, right. But the point I was making in my previous email > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-January/015375.html > > is that nobody seems to be using TLS/IA, the code in wpa-supplicant was > apparently never all that well tested, and support for it has been > removed entirely in the latest versions of all the relevant software > (and hence, barring heroic efforts, we will lose it anyway next time > wpa-supplicant is upgraded). > > So, unless you know of anybody who actually has a requirement for that > protocol today, I would be inclined to just turn it off unconditionally > rather than adding some mechanism to turn it on and off based on > INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE. > > p. > > I didn't see that message of yours. And actually you are right. I haven't seen any req for that protocol and never heard of any. So in my opinion a complete removal of this option would remain the best approach. I can undo all the changes and add this config disabled.