705126 – net-wireless/wpa_supplicant: dependency on net-wireless/cdra should consider kernel version

Bug 705126 - net-wireless/wpa_supplicant: dependency on net-wireless/cdra should consider kernel version

Summary: net-wireless/wpa_supplicant: dependency on net-wireless/cdra should consider ...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos)

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Reported:	2020-01-10 20:44 UTC by Edward Kigwana
Modified:	2021-11-21 12:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

See Also:	462032
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Description Edward Kigwana 2020-01-10 20:44:16 UTC

CRDA is legacy for older kernels see https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/crda.git/commit/?id=f4ef2531698fb9ba006e8b31a223b3269be8bc7c

For newer kernels need to ensure that kernel is configured properly just like the  net-wireless/iwd ebuild does

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build wpa_supplicant on a system without python 2 and connect to WIFI

Actual Results:  
Build fails due to net-wireless/crda dependency on python2

Expected Results:  
Builds and connects to WIFI

With the sunsetting of python 2 https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2 and crda in maintenance for legacy, it makes sense to drop the net-wireless/crda dependency for kernels greater than 4.15.0 and instead check that the kernel is configured properly.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2021-11-21 12:31:51 UTC

I think this is essentially fixed now we've made it optional in bug 462032.