Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation

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:

quoted

For mac80211_hwsim interfaces, suggest to use wpa_supplicant with the
more modern, netlink based driver instead of wext.

Makes sense, applied.

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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