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packagegroup-base: pull in iw as well as wireless-tools
authorChristopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:23:03 +0000 (13:23 -0700)
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:24:19 +0000 (12:24 +0100)
commit0c21e207537deb1c0290be631b4b7d84fba32842
tree180e7a49213317363d23738eadf6acb0f8b42a46
parentbc5401009332eb639d73fa4cbba217ff6899c787
packagegroup-base: pull in iw as well as wireless-tools

As was discussed in the commit which adds iw:

iw uses cfg80211/nl80211, which is the way of the future. wireless-tools uses
WEXT, which uses ioctl, which is in deep maintenance mode. See
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/Wireless-Extensions.
Also https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw indicates "The
old tool iwconfing, which uses Wireless Extensions interface, is deprecated
and it's strongly recommended to switch to iw and nl80211."

wireless-tools is kept as well for now for compatibility reasons, until we
have verified that all the network configuration mechanisms are using iw.

This adds VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_wireless-tools as a distro convenience.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc
meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb