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Re: [RFC] mac80211-hwsim: support creating radios with specific name.

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On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 13:12 -0700, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Otherwise, it can be very difficult to know which is which
> if you are trying to do detailed testing.

Having just implemented something with dynamic radios in the
wpa_supplicant test suite, I'm having second thoughts about this.

When you create a new radio, it returns the hwsim identifier, which
allows you to find the wiphy name in sysfs easily. Why not just rename
it afterwards from userspace?

johannes

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