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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:31:28 +0100
From: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
To: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Cc: Jade Lovelace <lists@jade.fyi>, connman@lists.linux.dev,
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Subject: Re: bug: 802.1x configuration is not turned into an iwd KnownNetwork
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Hi Denis

On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 09:20:46AM -0600, Denis Kenzior wrote:
> > ConnMan interacts with iwd only via the D-Bus interface. I can't remember that
> > we added any code to do any provisioning in iwd (also a quick glance over the
> > iwd plugin code doesn't ring any bell). Also I couldn't find any API doc in iwd
> > which covers this topic. So I don't know if it is currently possible to
> > provision iwd via the D-Bus API.
> 
> There's no way to provision 802.1x networks over D-Bus.  However, connman
> can write provisioning files to iwd's storage dir (/var/lib/iwd typically)
> and iwd will pick these up.  This is what the NM backend does.

Thanks for the feedback. ConnMan has also no D-Bus API for provisioning a 802.1x
network. The user has to provide a config file for ConnMan for this use case as
too.

Not really sold on the idea to add code to copy over the config settings.

Thanks,
Daniel