Re: Making NM portable

["Debarshi Ray" <debarshi ray gmail com>]

> currently Linux-specific is random bits to get info from the wireless
> card (which could be replaced by enhancing the wpa_supplicant dbus
> interface) and the routing and addressing stuff (which is pretty well
> encapsulated in libnl already and could be separated out in NM itself).

Isn't libnl PF_NETLINK socket specific? *BSDs use PF_ROUTE sockets
which differ from their PF_NETLINK counterparts.

> It would be interesting to try a quick port and see just how much needs
> to be changed and then start figuring out how best to break up the code
> in SVN to help that effort.  Care to take a stab? :)

I had a brief look at the code, and found that we need to replace the
parts which directly spawn iproute2 utilities. Would you to replace
those parts with API calls to some library?

Happy hacking,
Debarshi