[PATCH] wpa_supplicant: Try all drivers by default

Andrej Shadura andrew at shadura.me
Wed Oct 13 09:45:28 PDT 2021


Hi,

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021, at 20:28, Kees Cook wrote:
> Some distros carry patches to specify driver fallback, but only in
> specific conditions (e.g. the systemd service definition[1]). This leaves
> other wpa_supplicant instances needing to define fallback themselves,
> which leads to places where wpa_supplicant thinks it can't find a
> driver[2]. Instead, when -D is not specified, have wpa_supplicant try
> all the drivers it was built with in an attempt to find a working one
> instead of just giving up if the first doesn't work.

Thanks! This looks like a great idea — I’ll be able to finally drop that patch :)

Signed-off-by: Andrej Shadura <andrew.shadura at collabora.co.uk>

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Cheers,
  Andrej



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