[PATCH] Add an option to remove advanced features
Krishna Chaitanya
chaitanya.mgit at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 03:18:21 PST 2023
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 2:31 PM Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
> .. this way of doing that would result in unexpected changes to existing
> cases when updated hostap.git version since the in-use .config would not
> be modified automatically. At minimum, wpa_supplicant/android.config
> would need to be updated in similar manner. Another approach would be to
> use items like CONFIG_NO_RRM=y to remove functionality that used to be
> included by default. There are examples of both of those cases in the
> past, e.g., with CONFIG_WEP=y where the goal is to remove WEP from
> builds completely while having to maintain it temporarily for Android
> and with CONFIG_NO_TKIP=y where there is no immediate goal to remove it
> completely, but to provide an option for doing that now and potentially
> changing this to remove the functionality in future. That said, there is
> no goal of completely removing RRM/WMM-AC/Robust AV in long term.
>
> Please also note that wpa_supplicant/Android.mk would need changes to
> avoid breaking Android builds.
Thanks, I will go with the NO_<feat> approach and submit a v2, also, need to
protect WNM dependencies in MBO.
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