linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation

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Message-ID: <1476697144.19992.16.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:39:04 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@...3.blue>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver
 in documentation

On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 00:39 +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> For mac80211_hwsim interfaces, suggest to use wpa_supplicant with the
> more modern, netlink based driver instead of wext.

Makes sense, applied.

> Actually, I wasn't even able to make a connection with the
> configuration
> files and information provided in
> Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/{README,hostapd.conf/wpa_supp
> licant.conf}
> 
This less so, we even have a few test cases we run regularly, but I
don't know. Maybe there's something special in those configuration
files that we don't test for otherwise.

johannes