Bug#372208: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#372208: missing patches from wpasupplicant

[Kel Modderman]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:19:08PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
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>   
>> If these patches are for the development version of wpa_supplicant, 
>> should they not be merged into upstream CVS, so that next time I take a 
>> snapshot, there is no need to carry along a large patch series?
>>     
>
> It seems to me that the patches are for 0.4.8.
>
>   
>> This is no defect, rather a  wishlist item, IMHO.
>>     
>
> well, some of the patches makes wpa_supplicant work on some machines. So
> in some cases, they might be useful or even required.
>   

If they are indeed required, then someone should tell Jouni that. And 
when they send a bug report to a distribution maintainer(s), information 
about the discussion with upstream can be referenced to, and all the 
pertinent information is available there.

Of course, I am not telling you anything that you did not already know 
Reinhard, I simply fail to see the purpose of this bug report.

>   
>>> wpasupplicant is missing a number of patches which can be found at:
>>> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/wpa_supplicant/
>>>
>>> for me personally most important is that one (which makes wep w/ orinoco
>>> 		based cards work again):
>>>
>>> wpa_supplicant-wep-key-fix.patch
>>>  
>>>       
>> Please provide a distinct bug report for that issue.
>>     
>
> I remember something.. wait.
> I think this would be this bug:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/37396
>
> But I'm not that sure.
>   

Ok, will look.

>   
>>> furthermore I applied:
>>> wpa_supplicant-assoc-timeout.patch
>>> wpa_supplicant-auth-fallback-v4.patch
>>>  
>>>       
>> Why?
>>     
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> I'm a bit confused as well. Who wrote this patch? Who to contact him and
> have they already been submitted/discussed upstream?
>
>   

What about patches from SuSE and gentoo? ;-) (only joking)

Kel.