Hi Johannes, On ma, 2014-10-27 at 12:20 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 12:44 +0200, Jukka Rissanen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > patch 1 renames HWSIM_CMD_CREATE_RADIO to HWSIM_CMD_NEW_RADIO and > > HWSIM_CMD_DESTROY_RADIO to HWSIM_CMD_DEL_RADIO. They are more > > fitting on how other pieces of the wireless system work. A define > > to old name is provided for backward compatibility. > > That seems reasonable, if a little gratuitous. > > > Patches 2 and 3 use the newly named enums and provide a way to inform > > the listeners on the multicast group "config" when new radio is created > > and existing radio is deleted. > > Why bother? There are nl80211 events for this already, no? Yes, but from generic nl80211 event you cannot know if event is from hwsim radio or not. With this patch, the listener can know that the radio new/del event is specifically related to hwsim radio. Cheers, Jukka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
