[PATCH] hostapd: add a hostapd-basic-openssl variant

Rui Salvaterra rsalvaterra at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 13:33:44 EDT 2020


Hi, Daniel,

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 16:16, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
>
> Please do the same for wpad-basic as well, just to be consistent.

Sure thing, I had even suggested it on IRC. :) Do you prefer a
follow-up patch, or a new series with both patches?

> > Sizes of hostapd on ath79 (74Kc -O2):
> >   811781 bytes (hostapd-full)
> >   531573 bytes (hostapd-basic-openssl)
>
> It doesn't really make sense to compare those.
> Better compare hostapd-basic vs. hostapd-basic-wolfssl vs.
> hostapd-basic-openssl.

Absolutely true, in the general sense. However, and very specifically,
the point I'm trying to convey is that if you have to depend on
OpenSSL, for some reason (e.g. a package which only supports OpenSSL),
you're also stuck with {hostapd,wpad}-full, even if you don't need the
complete functionality, as all the basic variants depend on wolfSSL
(unless you'd be willing to pay the price of having two SSL libraries
installed).

Thanks,
Rui



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