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From: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
To: iwd@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] hwsim: return radio ID on create
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:08:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d4772e1e-cf43-0d33-4d0b-3aa8fa468fca@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200827173229.26466-1-prestwoj@gmail.com>

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Hi James,

On 8/27/20 12:32 PM, James Prestwood wrote:
> Hwsim was relying on some internal behavior of mac80211_hwsim where new
> radios are created with ID's starting at zero and incremented. While
> this is a reasonable assumption its better to obtain the actual radio
> ID since mac80211_hwsim returns it in the radio creation callback.
> 
> Now hwsim will return the radio ID when creating radios. Negative returns
> are still errors, but any value >= 0 indicates the radio ID of the newly
> created radio.

Ah, now I see what you meant by exit code.  Sorry I should have caught this earlier.

So the problem is that UNIX doesn't really understand negative exit codes.  exit 
code of 0 is a success and anything else is a failure.

I think you will get people screaming obscenities if they try to use hwsim in a 
script...

> ---
>   tools/hwsim.c | 9 +++++++--
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

Regards,
-Denis

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-27 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-27 17:32 [PATCH 01/16] hwsim: return radio ID on create James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 02/16] auto-t: prepare autotests for test-runner re-write James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 03/16] auto-t: introduce pure python " James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 04/16] auto-t: hostapd.py: update to work with test-runner rewrite James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 05/16] auto-t: testutil.py: " James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 06/16] auto-t: ofono.py: fix timeout cleanup and wait for service James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 07/16] auto-t: iwd.py: update to work with test-runner rewrite James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 08/16] auto-t: iwd.py: fix multiple timeout cleanup issues James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 09/16] auto-t: remove wiphy.py James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 10/16] auto-t: fix hidden network test James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 11/16] auto-t: fix testSAE autoconnect_test.py James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 12/16] auto-t: skip ofono tests if ofonod isn't running James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 13/16] auto-t: replace hard-coded interfaces James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 14/16] auto-t: remove device.wait_for_connected James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 15/16] tools: post test-runner rewrite cleanup James Prestwood
2020-08-27 17:32 ` [PATCH 16/16] doc: update test runner docs James Prestwood
2020-08-27 20:08 ` Denis Kenzior [this message]
2020-08-27 20:21   ` [PATCH 01/16] hwsim: return radio ID on create James Prestwood

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