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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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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