On 12/2/2025 4:02 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 at 03:12, Miaoqing Pan <[email protected]> wrote:
I went and read the commit you reference:
wpa-supplicant: Use upstream defconfig
The copy of defconfig we were carrying was from 2014 and very out of
date; drop it and use the upstream version with appropriate edits for
our PACKAGECONFIG.
So this was done for exactly the reasons I mentioned. Let's not go back there.
Commit d97bedd8bdcc ("wpa-supplicant: Use upstream defconfig") uses the
defconfig from http://w1.fi/releases/wpa_supplicant-2.11.tar.gz rather
than from https://git.w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/wpa_supplicant/defconfig.
In other words, the copied defconfig without any modifications. By
maintaining own defconfig, ensure a consistent baseline and simplify the
process of enabling additional options.
It may be simpler for you to copy a file from upstream into oe-core
and effectively make a fork, when you have modifications you'd like to
make, but this creates a significant maintenance burden for the
project that is already stretched very thin. How is the file going to
be kept in sync with upstream? Who is going to do it, and what ensures
they suddenly don't stop and disappear (this happens all the time)?
How is the situation described in the commit message not going to
repeat itself?
Neither you, nor Dmitry are answering this, so please propose your
needed changes to upstream, add them as backports, and devise a
configuration/packageconfig mechanism in the recipe for things that
need to be selected at build time. I know Debian does carry a copy,
that in itself is not a reason to mimic them.
Alex
Add Jouni to the CC list, he is the maintainer of wpa_supplicant.
The version of wpa_supplicant in oe-core is a fixed release version, and
its defconfig will not be updated. If we upgrade to v2.12 in the future,
the corresponding defconfig will need to be updated as well. This does
not require significant maintenance effort.
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