netdev - Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: Added vendor echo command

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Message-ID: <1466884668.3492.0.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Sat, 25 Jun 2016 21:57:48 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>, Erik Stromdahl <erik.stromdahl@...il.com>
Cc:	kvalo@...eaurora.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: Added vendor echo command

On Sat, 2016-06-25 at 21:32 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> 
> All you need to do is to prepare a hostap.git contribution that
> requests a new subcommand/attribute to be assigned and once that gets
> applied to the hostap.git master branch, the values have been
> assigned and can be used for whatever purpose they were assigned,
> e.g., in mac80211_hwsim.
> 

Assuming, of course, that there's actually a point in the original
patch. I haven't quite figured out any reason to actually have this
facility.

johannes