[packagekit] Patch to add connman network stack support

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias.clasen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Matthias Clasen
>> <matthias.clasen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I must say I'd much rather see connman and NM support a common
>>> interface for network status than patching all the world to support
>>> the network management app of the week...
>>
>> The API between NM and CM looks very different, and it might be hard
>> to convince the CM developers to support all the NM properties and
>> features. CM is a much smaller and simpler stack than NM.
>
> Thats why I intentionally said 'common interface for network status'.
> I don't have any illusions about these two supporting the same api in
> general, but network status is what 95% of all clients want to know,
> and that should be trivial enough to share.

Sure, I would agree with that. PackageKit only really cares about the
connection status and the connection type. NM sure makes that tricky
to get.

Richard.