[PATCH] hostapd: add a hostapd-basic-openssl variant

Daniel Golle daniel at makrotopia.org
Thu Oct 29 13:40:16 EDT 2020


On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 05:33:44PM +0000, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> Hi, Daniel,
> 
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 16:16, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
> >
> > Please do the same for wpad-basic as well, just to be consistent.
> 
> Sure thing, I had even suggested it on IRC. :) Do you prefer a
> follow-up patch, or a new series with both patches?

It can even be both in one patch (I'd prefer that).

> 
> > > Sizes of hostapd on ath79 (74Kc -O2):
> > >   811781 bytes (hostapd-full)
> > >   531573 bytes (hostapd-basic-openssl)
> >
> > It doesn't really make sense to compare those.
> > Better compare hostapd-basic vs. hostapd-basic-wolfssl vs.
> > hostapd-basic-openssl.
> 
> Absolutely true, in the general sense. However, and very specifically,
> the point I'm trying to convey is that if you have to depend on
> OpenSSL, for some reason (e.g. a package which only supports OpenSSL),
> you're also stuck with {hostapd,wpad}-full, even if you don't need the
> complete functionality, as all the basic variants depend on wolfSSL
> (unless you'd be willing to pay the price of having two SSL libraries
> installed).

...or just use hostapd's built-in crypto instead...


> 
> Thanks,
> Rui
> 
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