openrc-discuss

Ed W wrote:
> Roy Marples wrote:
> > wpa_supplicant does not support interface hotplugging, so if you need 
> > to hotplug a wpa_supplicant driven interface you need to use net.eth0 
> > and friends. I did submit patches upstream for this, but they were not 
> > accepted.
>
> Could you be a bit more specific on what you mean here?  By 
> "hotplugging" do you mean the action that a network is connected to and 
> the interface is brought up?

No, I mean wpa_supplicant needs to run on an interface that is not 
available at system boot, such as a pcmcia card.

> Any chance of sharing those patches?

They are BSD only at this point. Still want them?

> If upstream won't take patches, where does this leave openrc long term?  
> What's the long term solution?

Well, NetBSD is worse off than Gentoo - no possible hotpluging for 
wpa_supplicant there, hence the patches. I must follow up and retry.
The long term solution is for wpa_supplicant to hotplug. I can maintain 
the patches for it in NetBSD (I'm a dev there), but I'm now sure how 
Gentoo would go with it as linux equivalent is much more intrusive.

> > There is no PPP support in openrc-0.5.0 with the new network script - 
> > you'll have to start it yourself.
>
> Understood - how do I get started?  As in I don't yet understand the 
> openrc.050 architecture to know what actually needs doing?

Speak to mrness@xxxxxxxxxx about getting the PPP script used before the 
baselayout-1 module system was used. That may still work. He may take a 
few days to reply though.

Thanks

Roy