Re: NM HEAD 1.721 AP_SCAN patched.]

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 15:19 -0500, Bill Moss wrote:
> Yesterday, I built 1.710 which did not use the bogus AP_SCAN ctrl
> command and it worked fine. Today, I build 1.721 and the bug log showed
> the following because the invalid AP_SCAN ctrl command had been added to
> the NM code.
> 
> Jan 9 12:45:43 localhost NetworkManager: <information> SUP: sending
> command 'INTERFACE_ADD eth1 wext /var/run/wpa_supplicant '
> Jan 9 12:45:43 localhost NetworkManager: <information> SUP: response
> was 'OK'
> Jan 9 12:45:43 localhost NetworkManager: <information> SUP: sending
> command 'AP_SCAN 2'
> Jan 9 12:45:43 localhost NetworkManager: <information> SUP: response
> was 'UNKNOWN COMMAND'
> 
> ap_scan=2 is a valid ctrl parameter setting from a wpa_supplicant.conf
> file but 'AP_SCAN 2' is not a valid ctrl command for use with the
> wpa_supplicant control interface which is laid out in ctrl_iface.c.
> 
> The solution is to delete the use of AP_SCAN and to compile in the
> desired default behaviour ap_scan=2. This will work for now.

Yeah, it might take a while for the patch I forwarded upstream to
wpa_supplicant folks time to get into the program.  Jouni is usually
pretty responsive, so I'm not sure how long that will take.

Dan