[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#373180: Bug#373180: ifdown wlan0 again

[Kel Modderman]

On Friday 11 January 2008 21:27:36 Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I also find it quite un-nice to be able to run ifup ath0 to enable
> wpa_supplicant, but not ifdown ath0 to stop it.
>
> Why exactly is is that you can’t provide this functionality?
>
> Is it because ifupdown insists that it needs some values with manual
> method to consider the interface as up? What happens if you use dummy
> values there? Or maybe patch ifupdown to have a "none" method that just
> runs the hook scripts and doesn’t do anything else?

When ifupdown in unstable supports "-o VAR=$value" on the command line, I can 
see a fix this bug as being possible. I need some rock solid way to 
differentiate who called ifdown, the user, or the wpa_cli daemon listening to 
wpa_supplicant events.

ifupdown in experimental supports this.

Thanks, Kel.