From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Subject: Re: question on "mac80211_hwsim: support any address in userspace"
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:14:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1450275253.8247.16.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56717119.1040701@candelatech.com>
On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 06:11 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
>
> > 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)
>
> Good lord, please don't even suggest parsing the name. You can
> easily rename a phy device. I do it all the time to keep a phyname
> associated with a real radio through module reloads.
>
You're confusing the wiphy name and the hwsim virtual class device name
(which you can't touch) :)
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-16 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-16 3:29 question on "mac80211_hwsim: support any address in userspace" Ben Greear
2015-12-16 9:17 ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-16 13:13 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 13:25 ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-16 13:35 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 13:42 ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-16 14:11 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 14:14 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-12-16 14:15 ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-16 14:59 ` Bob Copeland
2015-12-16 15:52 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 17:30 ` Adam R. Welle
2015-12-16 17:46 ` Bob Copeland
2015-12-16 18:57 ` Adam R. Welle
2015-12-16 22:14 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 22:56 ` Adam R. Welle
2015-12-16 23:20 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 23:56 ` Adam R. Welle
2015-12-17 13:26 ` Bob Copeland
2015-12-16 13:21 ` me@bobcopeland.com >> Bob Copeland
2015-12-16 13:27 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 13:57 ` me@bobcopeland.com >> Bob Copeland
2015-12-16 14:16 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 14:33 ` me@bobcopeland.com >> Bob Copeland
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