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FS#44208 - [linux] Add mac80211_hwsim to kernel

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Anthony DeStefano (adx) - Monday, 16 March 2015, 13:13 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Monday, 20 August 2018, 19:26 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

Will you add the mac80211_hwsim module to the default kernel build? It's CONFIG_MAC80211_HWSIM.

Thanks!


Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Monday, 20 August 2018, 19:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  linux 4.15-1
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 18 March 2015, 15:14 GMT
This is not needed for normal wireless LAN usage and is only for testing.

Why should we enable this?
This is for developers who can compile the kernel.
Comment by Shvedov Yury (ein_shved) - Wednesday, 26 October 2016, 08:39 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
Arch Linux mostly used by developers and mac80211_hwsim module my be needed by many users. Even lts kernel in arch linux updates frequently. And it is become very painful to download each time new kernel for only 24K of this module. I didn't succeed to build it from git with correct signature. This module costs very little for support and it is enabled by default even by canonical.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 26 October 2016, 08:42 GMT
This is not only useful for testing the mac80211 framework which is kernel development (no need to add this module for those users), but when developing userspace tools against the mac80211 framework it's nice to have this driver.

I don't think this driver is "needed by many users", but it's a module that doesn't affect anything else so it's not a problem to enable this driver.

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