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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Jouni Malinen" <j@w1.fi>
Cc: "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 11:39:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1476697144.19992.16.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161016223933.9484-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>

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.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-17  9:39 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 [this message]
2016-10-17 18:14   ` Linus Lüssing

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