RFC: supporting multiple hostap instances in /etc/rc.conf

[Paul Schenkeveld]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:19:21PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 17 April 2011 22:05, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Way to complex for my taste :)
> >
> > How about
> >
> > hostapd_enable="YES"
> > hostapd_interfaces="wlan0 wlan1 .." # defaults to empty
> >
> > and then
> >
> > if [ -n $hostapd_interfaces ]; then
> >        for interface in $interface; do
> >                pidfile=/var/run/hostapd/$interface.pid
> >                conffile=/etc/hostapd-$interface.conf
> >                ..
> >        done
> > else
> >        pidfile=/var/run/hostapd.pid
> >        conffile=/etc/hostapd.conf
> > fi
> >
> >
> That sounds fine. Shall we submit a patch to the hostapd rc.d script to
> implement that functionality?

Please go for it!  I had something cooked up here locally but not nearly
as nice :(

I like the idea of just specifying the interface and let the script
derive hostapd_<instance>_pidfile and hostapd_<instance>_conffile from
the interface but perhaps you could create these intermediate variables
and allow them to be overruled in /etc/rc.conf{,.local}.

Paul Schenkeveld