Re: [PATCH 2/2][RFC] mac80211_hwsim: Report radio addresses in NEW_RADIO/GET_RADIO

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 18:04 +0100, Benjamin Beichler wrote:
> Am 01.03.2017 um 16:35 schrieb Ben Greear:
> > That is actually not possible. The permanent MAC-Addresses of hwsim
> > 
> > > radios are directly created by there internal ID, which is only
> > > increased for new radios and definitely not reassigned.
> > > 
> > > But I would be happy, if this were possible, since it would make
> > > some
> > > simulation related stuff easier (currently we need to unload and
> > > load
> > > the hwsim module over and over again for every run).
> > 
> > Ahh, you are right.  But you can specify the wiphy name, and then
> > you
> > can use that to query the debugfs to find the MAC addr, and then
> > sync
> > your user-space with that info.
> > 
> > It should also be easy enough to specify the MAC address when
> > creating
> > the radio.
> > 
> > And, you should be able to create virtual STA, AP, etc, with any
> > specified
> > MAC address, so the MAC of the radio really should not matter much?
> > 
> 
> That is another problem ... this won't work currently, since the
> frame
> delivery compares the receiver address with the permanent MAC
> addresses
> of all hwsim phys. I work as an idle task on patch, which makes this
> lookup (currently implemented as linear search) as a hashmap mapping
> an
> MAC to a wiphy struct , including scenarios with differing MAC
> addresses
> of vifs.

That's probably something we really ought to fix :)

johannes