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Subject: Re: question on "mac80211_hwsim: support any address in userspace"
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
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	Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:14:13 +0100
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On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 06:11 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> > You can query the ID/index already through the netlink API, or even
> > from sysfs since the virtual device name is essentially
> > 	sprintf(name, "hwsim%d", idx)
> 
> Good lord, please don't even suggest parsing the name.  You can
> easily rename a phy device.  I do it all the time to keep a phyname
> associated with a real radio through module reloads.
> 

You're confusing the wiphy name and the hwsim virtual class device name
(which you can't touch) :)

johannes