Re: [RFC] change mac80211_hwsim tx_rates to ieee80211_tx_rate

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

> So I would propose to put the whole struct into the netlink messages,

This is a terrible idea, since internal changes to this struct would
break the userland API/ABI. hwsim seems perhaps less important than
most APIs, but there is wmediumd etc. already.

> but I think that will break up the communication to e.g. bob
> copelands
> wmediumd and similar simulations. I would like to have our
> Implementation working with mainline kernels and therefore ask how we
> could achieve this easily.
> 
> Obviously, we could define another field in the hwsim messages, but
> as bob copeland already stated, significantly more information within
> the netlink messages could  intensify the timing overhead of hwsim.

I don't think we have any other choice but add the relevant fields as
proper attributes.

johannes