Re: WPA status 2006-01-08

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 20:04 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> But unfortunately we do have some regressions right now, and we've got
> to look at how to fix those.  If we do go driver-specific in
> NetworkManager, then there really will be a Flag Day where we turn off
> that support and force drivers to be WEXT compliant.  If distros don't
> like that, they can either fix the drivers or patch NM (Fedora
> included).  I'd like that day to be as soon as realistically possible.

I am for considering driver-specific support, but I agree 100% we want
to move toward a pure WEXT-based solution, sooner rather than later.

I guess we should see what we fix by going driver-specific with
wpa_supplicant.  How easy is the changeover?

	Robert Love