From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.43.152]:49703 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751316Ab3GaGo0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jul 2013 02:44:26 -0400 Message-ID: <1375253060.8289.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20130731_084429_854640_287D0C4E) Subject: Re: 802.11 infrastructure for regression testing - upstream / mac80211 / cfg80211 From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linux-wireless , Ben Greear , Paul Stewart , Felix Fietkau , Jouni Malinen Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:44:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20130731_025357_256380_141CDEED) References: (sfid-20130731_025357_256380_141CDEED) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 17:53 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Folks, > > Back in 2009 Intel had put out a wifi-test tree [0] but that seems > deprecated now. The git tree at least is gone. Can someone confirm if > that's dead? It is indeed dead. > We later had Google present at the 2010 San Francisco > wireless summit [1] their test infrastructure using autotest. Last I > checked that stuff was not merged back upstream to autotest. I don't think that's upstream, but it's certainly available as open source from chromium. > Can > someone confirm ? Lastly we have mac80211_hwsim [2] and also a slew of > internal testing infrastructures that obviously are not open. hwsim is really orthogonal here - it's a test driver to allow testing in e.g. virtual machine environments as opposed to a real testbed/screenroom, but it obviously doesn't provide any test infrastructure. johannes