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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] wireless: Allow wiphy/hwsim management from user
 namespaces
From: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 12:37:08 +0200
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Hi Johannes,

> So I think you should change the "wmediumd_portid" variable to live
> in struct hwsim_net and then allow HWSIM_CMD_REGISTER to be done
> inside the net namespace.
> 
> With that, and making the other few wmediumd related operations
> namespace aware, we would be able to run wmediumd in any net
> namespace and have it manage all the radios created in that
> namespace.

Yes, that makes sense. I've a patch mostly ready, but it needs some
more testing before I can submit it. Hope to complete that today.

While testing I've hit a Netlink verification issue that I'll
separately submit a patch for.

Best regards
Martin