From: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:14:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161017181457.GF6366@otheros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476697144.19992.16.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:39:04AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 00:39 +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> > For mac80211_hwsim interfaces, suggest to use wpa_supplicant with the
> > more modern, netlink based driver instead of wext.
>
> Makes sense, applied.
>
> > Actually, I wasn't even able to make a connection with the
> > configuration
> > files and information provided in
> > Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/{README,hostapd.conf/wpa_supp
> > licant.conf}
> >
> This less so, we even have a few test cases we run regularly, but I
> don't know. Maybe there's something special in those configuration
> files that we don't test for otherwise.
I investigated a little further and the problem is probably that
I'm running a minimal Linux kernel which was compiled without
CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT :-).
Anyways, thanks for applying the patch!
Regards, Linus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-17 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-16 22:39 [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation Linus Lüssing
2016-10-17 9:39 ` Johannes Berg
2016-10-17 18:14 ` Linus Lüssing [this message]
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