Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:14:57 +0200 | From | Linus Lüssing <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation |
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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
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