From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Benjamin Beichler <Benjamin.Beichler@uni-rostock.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/4] mac80211_hwsim: add radio idx param to netlink callback of radio creation
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:46:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504881999.20347.6.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5635378a-1d80-99f6-0538-9a9c9a7bc0fe@uni-rostock.de>
Uh. Is there anything you can do not to mangle your replies? I don't
even know what you're replying to etc.
> AFAIK, you can change the MAC-Address of an interface on
> the phy, but not the perm address of the phy. But for frames sent to
> a wmediumd always the perm address is used to identify the sender and
> receiver. It is really annoying to additionally keep a translation
> table in userspace to manage between random ids/mac-addresses to them
> you use in a simulation for this.
I think we tried to fix that once, but that caused more problems ...
I'd rather allow you to then specify the MAC address though - the
index/address mapping doesn't need to be the identity, after all.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-08 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20170908141137.3941-1-benjamin.beichler@uni-rostock.de>
2017-09-08 14:11 ` [RFC 2/4] mac80211_hwsim: add hwsim_tx_rate_flags to Netlink Attributes Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-08 14:26 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-11 9:49 ` Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-15 7:36 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 14:11 ` [RFC 3/4] mac80211_hwsim: explicitly set netlink parallel ops to false Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-08 14:19 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 15:07 ` Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-08 15:11 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 14:11 ` [RFC 4/4] mac80211_hwsim: add radio idx param to netlink callback of radio creation Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-08 14:28 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 14:43 ` Benjamin Beichler
2017-09-08 14:46 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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