wpa_supplicant: Add an explicit option to enable nl80211.

Currently, nl80211 support is conditionnal with libnl being enabled,
using implicit dependencies.  This causes problems since it is not
obvious and wpa_supplicant without nl80211 isn't what most user expects.

If nl80211 isn't enabled, then buildroot only enables the wext driver,
which will only work if some deprecated kernel feature isn't left
disabled, or if using a outdated out-of-tree linux driver which doesn't
use the cfg80211 infrastructure.

This makes nl80211 support an explicit option, which
"select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNL" accordingly.  To handle upgrades nicely, it
would have been nice to have "default y if BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNL", but
Kconfig treats this as a circular dependency.  So instead, this enables
the option by default, which is less worse than not enabling nl80211
when it was previously implicitely enabled.

[Thomas:
 - rewrap Config.in help text
 - add comment about thread dependency.]

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@green-communications.fr>
Reviewed-by: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com>
Tested-by: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

diff --git a/package/wpa_supplicant/Config.in b/package/wpa_supplicant/Config.in
index f32a86748904f8e421163820c5cdeb2691c0f441..eb42257000901891e7a922ec584ba282b7ea7b8d 100644 (file)
--- a/package/wpa_supplicant/Config.in
+++ b/package/wpa_supplicant/Config.in
@@ -8,6 +8,27 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_WPA_SUPPLICANT
 
 if BR2_PACKAGE_WPA_SUPPLICANT
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_NL80211
+       bool "Enable nl80211 support"
+       default y
+       select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNL
+       depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libnl
+       help
+         Enable support for nl80211.  This is the current wireless
+         API for Linux, supported by all wireless drivers in vanilla
+         Linux, but may not be supported by some out-of-tree Linux
+         wireless drivers.  wpa_supplicant will still fall back to
+         using the Wireless Extensions (wext) API with these drivers.
+
+         If this option is disabled, then only the deprecated wext
+         API will be supported, with far less features.  Linux may
+         supports using wext with modern drivers using a
+         compatibility layer, but it must be enabled in the kernel
+         configuration.
+
+comment "nl80211 support needs a toolchain w/ threads"
+       depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_AP_SUPPORT
        bool "Enable AP mode"
        help

diff --git a/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk b/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk
index 1a3e0dbb474aef22a34e842a39723b477108256d..0574f02f4138e7a71af5f25eeaf2d8534a32f6f2 100644 (file)
--- a/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk
+++ b/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONFIG_DISABLE = \
 # libnl-3 needs -lm (for rint) and -lpthread if linking statically
 # And library order matters hence stick -lnl-3 first since it's appended
 # in the wpa_supplicant Makefiles as in LIBS+=-lnl-3 ... thus failing
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNL),y)
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_NL80211),y)
 ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)
 WPA_SUPPLICANT_LIBS += -lnl-3 -lm -lpthread
 endif