Doubt about applying patch to wpa supplicant

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 21:20 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:26:54PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 06:27 +0530, Raghavendra. S wrote:
> > >    I saw few of the PATCH releases from Dan in recent past for
> > > frequency(ad-hoc mode support) and scanning in disconnected state if
> > > explicit scan command issued.
> > > 
> > >   Jouni has replied that he has applied those patches. But when I down
> > > loaded latest wpa supplicant-0.5.9 from stable branch I could not see
> > > those patches applied.
> > > 
> > >  Whether separate branch is maintained for those patches applied?
> 
> > There shouldn't be; I think Jouni is just a bit slow in applying the
> > patches.  All the patches I posted should also be applicable to 0.5.x.
> > Jouni?
> 
> Like a said, I applied the patch. This was on December 27th and v0.5.9
> was released on December 2nd (of course, without the patch).. In other
> words, this change will be in the next 0.5.x release and the meanwhile
> it is also available from my Git repository (and would be from CVS which
> is the official place for 0.5.x releases, but well, my CVS repository is
> not currently online due to server issues).

Ah, fair enough; as always the patch dates and the gitk chronology don't
match up since the patch dates are not always the same as their commit
date.  Any thoughts on the latest patches posted?  As I see it,
candidates for cherry-picking are:

[PATCH]: Add a D-BUS service activation configuration
    (340937dd869c2f5c3d58ca0417dbbe67f77dd1ca)

[PATCH] restrict D-Bus interface to root only
    (f320a8bbde5c598821f60e24424e21b86e8ec29c)

[PATCH] honor explicit scan requests when disconnected
    (a212dadddf8dd9784136efe9964ef57e9185a251)

[PATCH] fix setting transmit key index with older orinoco/prism54 drivers
    (30626214728611c93a3bdd47bdd75f08a865f9dd)

Thanks!
Dan