[packagekit] Patch to add connman network stack support

Matthias Clasen matthias.clasen at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 07:49:12 PDT 2009


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.



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