The various need_secrets() implementation do allocate a fresh GPtrArray, but
add static strings to them without dup'ing. Thus callers must _not_ free the
array elements, only the array itself. Adjust documentation and annotations
accordingly.
Also adjust the corresponding comment in the goi-list-connections.py example.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698175
We had separate checks for glib-2.0, gobject-2.0, gmodule-2.0, and
gio-unix-2.0. It doesn't make sense to link a binary against all 4
because gio-unix-2.0 depends on glib-2.0 and gobject-2.0. Doing this
actually breaks things in unusual circumstances.
Generally, few bits of NM actually just use glib, and not gio. We
might as well coalesce those requirements together, even if it means
in some cases we "overlink". Additionally, I chose for now to fold
gmodule-2.0 in as well, even though many fewer programs need it. The
cost of overlinking is quite small.
The benefit of this is less repeated junk in Makefile.am, as well as
more centralized control over GLib. A followup patch will allow us to
set -DGLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED in just one place, rather than having
to replicate it 4 times.
The NM configure is still suboptimal - for example, libpolkit-1
depends on gio-2.0, so really we should determine the compiler flags
all in one pass. But it doesn't matter too much for now.
A new value for NM80211Mode is introduced (NM_802_11_MODE_AP) and the
new mode is passed to wpa_supplicant analogous to adhoc-mode.
The places which need to know the interface mode have been extended to
handle the new mode.
If the configuration does not contain a fixed frequency, a channel is
selected the same way as with adhoc-mode before.
Unfortunately since libnm-glib/libnm-util make heavy use of
GHashTable and GValue, functions that deal with these types
can't be used from Python when using GObject Introspection,
since pygobject can't handle conversion between python types
and GValue/GHashTable very well. You'll likely encounter
assertions like:
ERROR:pygi-argument.c:1755:_pygi_argument_to_object: assertion failed: (g_type_info_get_tag (key_type_info) != GI_TYPE_TAG_VOID)
Aborted
- the first uses dbus-glib and D-Bus "NameOwnerChanged" signal directly
- the second uses GIO's g_bus_watch_name()
- the third uses Qt and QDBusServiceWatcher class
It's always used with a GByteArray anyway, as are most
functions in nm-utils.h. Even better, we can skip the
memcpy since it turns out to be pointless.