10:07 a.m.
Hi Marco,
Thank you very much for your feedback. For this proposal we based on
this assumption: we are talking about DBUS interfaces, these are not
directly the interface the end user will need to understand, in
between there must be and application for shell/graphical UI => here
the developer may not be a WiFi expert, so we put all the parameters
of StartWPS and CancelWPS optional (except authentication), and
connman will try to figure out an automatic behavior => this already
goes in the direction you proposed
On the other hand the automatic behavior may not suit all cases and an
expert developer may know how to manage several WiFi interfaces (in
our case three, STA, P2P and AP) => in this case the optional
parameters can come in handy.
“Ifname" : optional, meaning it can be empty, but with it we don’t
need other methods when the UI needs to choose between STA-WPS or
AP-WPS, or there is a P2P interface that can be used also as an
alternative STA or AP with WPS
Still, ConnMan never uses ifnames as an entry point for a decision.
Actually, the only place where you will see an interface name is in the
description of a Service entry (Ethernet dict attribute).
This is enforced, you can't change that rule :) we don't want users or
UI code to mess up with interfaces directly.
Make it work for 1 device first.
For P2P, you could use an alternate method called "Pair()" maybe. The
role is decided during pairing anyway (if I remember well? this is so
far away...).
Let's see how to solve that for 2+ device later.
(devices could be ordered by their support: the device which supports
more technologies would be the first, etc...
ConnMan would loop on them, each time StartWPS() - or Pair if supported
- failed. Just a quick idea.)
"Type" and "Pin"you are proposing to have only
one parameter
“authentication” but when the device with connman is enrollee it must
show a PIN to the user, not receive one: then we need to have two
parameters (Type, PIN)
We never supported the registrar side on current WPS support in ConnMan
(as far as I remember at least).
So if the Agent is requesting about WPS, up to the UI to provide a PIN
the user would use if user wants to use PIN method.
like we propose, or if you prefer only one (Authentication) it must
be
parsed in the following way:
-A string like “PIN” which means the connman must provide a PIN to the
GUI so that the user can enter it in the other device (normally the AP)
-A string containing a number like “12345678” which means this is the
PIN to be used
-Empty: means use PBC
“role” – optional, meaning it can be empty, but while for the STA I
agree with you it mostly is an enrollee, the AP is a more complicated
system; why not offer the possibility to the developer to choose the
role if he wants (or if he needs)?
AP mode in ConnMan is a very simplistic one. Actually, wpa_s does not
provide much feature there as well (compared to hostapd).
You could stick with registrar and that's it.
If you want to differentiate, you could add a configuration entry in
main.conf (like APWPSMode=<registrar/enrollee> ? registrar would be default)
Less stuff to expose through DBus at least. I would be surprised people
really care about such option anyway.
Hope it clarifies things.
Br,
Tomasz