From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: No parent is better than an illegimate one. Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:29:15 +0200 Message-ID: <1278944955.5870.29.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> References: <20100621150826.762ac9f2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100621222938.GA20583@suse.de> <20100621231058.GA1066@suse.de> <20100622035631.GA3755@suse.de> <1278917200.3667.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Kay Sievers , Greg KH , "Greg KH netdev" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:36186 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755357Ab0GLOaI (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:30:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 07:23 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > It'll probably work, but anything in userspace relying on it will fail, > > and you'll have some unused virtual devices in sysfs? > > Well anything in userspace that isn't mac80211_hwsim specific will > likely already fail because the format of the link is different for > mac80211_hwsim then for every other wireless device. Well, I seem to have a vague memory of network-manager for example requiring the link but not really caring much what it is, but I might remember something else that wasn't hwsim related. johannes