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Bug 596606

Summary: net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.6 - add an option for enabling interface matching
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: charles17
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) <gurligebis>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: gef.kornflakes, zerochaos
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: eapply_user-config_match-iface.patch

Description charles17 2016-10-09 08:28:24 UTC
Please add an option for enabling interface matching in wpa_supplicant-2.6

# Enable interface matching in wpa_supplicant
#CONFIG_MATCH_IFACE=y

For background of this request see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7974604.html#7974604
Comment 1 charles17 2016-12-26 19:34:26 UTC
Created attachment 457448 [details, diff]
eapply_user-config_match-iface.patch

For wpa_supplicant version 2.6-r1 the attached user patch can be applied
Comment 2 charles17 2017-01-23 15:24:43 UTC
PR exists: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/3172
Comment 3 Patrice Clement gentoo-dev 2017-04-10 16:01:39 UTC
commit 423af2686b225f76bb8ae52221690581a56a9625 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author:     charIes17 <charles17@arcor.de>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 19 18:24:59 2016 +0100
Commit:     Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: Mon Apr 10 18:00:48 2017 +0200

net-wireless/wpa_supplicant: enable MATCH_IFACE.

See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7974604.html#7974604.

Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/596606
Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/3172

net-wireless/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-2.6-r1.ebuild | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Merged, thanks!