Hello. On 05/14/2018 04:29 PM, Alexander Aring wrote: > 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. The positive side is that it got some more testing and you got some problems reported. :-) > > TO ALL: never send me private (and absolutely no HTML mails) to me to > report problems. Please do it here. Agreed. If you have questions please write to the list. There are often other people who can help as well. regards Stefan Schmidt -- 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
