Bug 6018

Summary: Replace obsolete wireless-tools with iw tool
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Cristian Iorga <cristian.iorga>
Component: connectivityAssignee: Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Lucian Musat <georgex.l.musat>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium+ CC: alexandru.c.georgescu, bluelightning, jessica.zhang, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 2.1 M2   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know

Description Cristian Iorga 2014-03-20 14:37:24 UTC
The new tool of choice in the Linux world for configuring/working with wireless networks is iw tool.
As such, wireless-tools should be removed from oe-core and iw placed in oe-core as a replacement.
Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2015-10-28 10:18:35 UTC
iw is now in OE-Core and is pulled into packagegroup-base when DISTRO_FEATURES includes "wifi". wireless-tools is still available and pulled in the same way, but you can set VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_wireless-tools to just "iw" to only bring in iw. I'm not sure, but does that mean we can mark this one resolved now?
Comment 2 Ross Burton 2016-01-22 23:50:33 UTC
Yes, I think it does.

Fixed in oe-core 0c21e207537deb1c0290be631b4b7d84fba32842.