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Subject: Re: 802.11 infrastructure for regression testing - upstream /
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On 08/05/2013 09:59 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com> writes:
>
>> I am considering coming up with a new test framework for the brcm80211
>> drivers using python scripting, which is why I started py80211
>> experiment (available on github), but your mentioning of autotest
>> makes me want to revisit that.
>
> No no, please forget anything your heard about autotest and just focus
> on py80211 ;)
>
> More seriously, my experience with the autotest and any other test
> frameworks are that they are so freaking huge and difficult to maintain
> that eventually they just die. Small is beautiful and I have been
> dreaming about a lean and mean python based nl80211 test harness for
> drivers, but never found the time to do anything (my usual story). So
> I'm eagerly waiting how your py80211 will workout.

I am on vacation now so I may end up working on it. Although, I do have 
an almost 5yr old son claiming most of my time :-)

Anyway, there have been a few patches applied to libnl itself to support 
genl in python. So I can send and receive netlink messages and 
notifications as a python dictionary of netlink attributes. Now need to 
determine the level of abstraction I want to provide to users of 
py80211. Suggestions are more than welcome.

Regards,
Arend