Hi, On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:21:53PM -0400, Alexander Aring wrote: > This patch adds a new virtual driver mac802154_hwsim which is based on > the fakelb driver. > The fakelb driver will get deprecated and hopefully removed someday. > The main reason for doing this step is to rename the driver to > mac802154_hwsim to have a similar naming scheme as mac80211_hwsim, > which is more popular in the 802.11 wireless word and the idea is the > same behind this driver. > > The new features of this driver are to have knowledge about connected > edges, which can be changed during runtime. This offers a testing > environment for routing protocols e.g. RPL. > The default behaviour is still as fakelb: two radios connected to each > other. New added radios during runtime will not be connected to other > wpan_hwsim instances. > > The netlink api is not namespace aware on purpose, only the registered > wpan_phy's can be moved to namespaces. The physical layer according to > wiresless "air" communication can be handled across namespaces. > > Furthermore the edges can be weighted with the LQI value according IEEE > 802.15.4 which offers additional handling to mark bad or good connection > indicators to other connected virtual phys. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aring@xxxxxxxxxxxx> somebody (don't cc him, I think he don't want to be public) reported about issues with hwsim privetly. I will check on it and enable more kernel debugging stuff in kernel hacking feature to see all locking/stack issues. TO ALL: never send me private (and absolutely no HTML mails) to me to report problems. Please do it here. Thanks. I will look for this today and change mostly the suggested changes. - Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
