Re: [RFC] mac80211_hwsim: notify user-space about channel change.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 04/14/2015 08:06 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 07:56 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>>> Well, the question isn't really that offloading, the question is what
>>> happens with the hw-scan logic in hwsim? Though I guess now that I think
>>> about it, that wouldn't show up in userspace at all with your changes.
>>
>> I think for HW scan and related matters, you treat user-space like a firmware
>> target, so you send it a message, and then get some response or action, similar
>> to how you would request ath10k or some USB dongle NIC to do things for you.
>
> That's not really how it works today, but it's one possible (probably
> the only possible) approach.
>
>> My own interest in hwsim user-space is to make it act more like ath9k
>> than a firmware target driver, but I don't think my changes preclude doing
>> target based emulation in the future.
>
> True, although I'd like to see the multi-channel issue addressed better.

I need a hint or two on what exactly you want changed in my patch to
address your request, or maybe you or someone else can just address
the issue in follow-on patches?

Thanks,
Ben


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