Re: question on "mac80211_hwsim: support any address in userspace"

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 05:35 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:

> Well, the old code used it as a key, and the old documentation used
> it as a key, so it is a bit of a regression to change the behaviour
> now.

But it's still used as a key, no? Just the value changed. If you treat
it as a key then you'd just have it for a frame incoming and outgoing?

> > I think this is pretty much a done deal by now though since I don't
> > really want to break wmediumd.
> 
> It was not the only user-space to use the API :)

So you're saying you have code that broke? How did it break though, I
don't really see it yet. Can you explain?

> Well, that would be fine too.  The nice thing about the
> address,though, is that you can query it as part of
> /sys/class/ieee..... and other already-implemented
> interfaces.  Finding the radio-id would require new API in this case,
> which is a bit of work.

Well, it was always rather awkward since it was the *second* address :)

You can query the ID/index already through the netlink API, or even
from sysfs since the virtual device name is essentially
	sprintf(name, "hwsim%d", idx)

johannes