[pkg-wpa-devel] hostapd 0.7.X

Kel Modderman kel at otaku42.de
Tue Apr 27 11:01:17 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 27 April 2010 04:46:34 Jan Dittberner wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 09:19:06PM +0200, Jan Dittberner wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:08:29AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> > > Jouni Malinen recently released hostapd/wpa_supplicant 0.7.2 and announced
> > > that 0.7.X will become the stable branch as of 0.7.3 and 0.6.X goes into
> > > deep maintenance mode.
> > > 
> > > Because of this, I am going to move wpa_supplicant to 0.7.2 and believe we
> > > should do so for hostapd too. What do you think?
> > 
> > I aggree and will have a look at the package tomorrow evening.
> 
> I built a hostapd_0.7.2-1 package and uploaded it to experimental. The package
> works fine for my AP here but I would like some more testing before uploading a
> version targeted for Squeeze.

What do you think about dropping the driver_madwifi support, removing the
includes and so on? I used to maintain madwifi in Debian, but had it removed
since the existence of functional ath5k/ath9k drivers.

The madwifi crap also caused FTBFS on sparc.

Thanks, Kel.



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