[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH v3 1/4] base-files: generate /etc/config/wireless, if it doesn't exist

[Christian Lamparter]

On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 12:05:43 PM CEST Bastian Bittorf wrote:
> * Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at googlemail.com> [18.10.2016 08:41]:
> >  wifi_detect() {
> > +	[ ! -f /etc/config/wireless ] && touch /etc/config/wireless
> > +
> >  	for driver in $DRIVERS; do (
> >  		if eval "type detect_$driver" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null; then
> >  			eval "detect_$driver" || echo "$driver: Detect failed" >&2
> 
> maybe move it down, otherwise also on
> boards without wifi we touch '/etc/config/wireless':
> 
> if eval "detect_$driver" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null; then
>   [ -f /etc/config/wireless ] || touch /etc/config/wireless
>    ...
> else
>   ...
> fi

Ah there's a reason behind this exact location.

Patch 3/4 makes it so that wifi config is run as part of the
ieee80211/net(broadcom-wl) hotplug handler. So boards without
wifi will never run /sbin/wifi config and hence don't create
/etc/config/wireless. This also means that they always will
spend 1 Second sleeping in /etc/init.d/boot... But this is what
we currently do anyway.

Regards,
Christian