Re: NetworkManager and mac80211_hwsim

[Daniel Wagner <wagi monom org>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 05:04:44PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 17:00 +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> 
> > hotplug_event_begin_add_dev (..., parent_dev = NULL, ...)
> >   net_add(..., parent_dev = NULL, ...)
> >   {
> >   	if (parent_dev == NULL)
> > 		goto error;
> >   }
> > 
> > Before I go deeper into that thing, does someone has
> > an idea what could go wrong here with mac80211_hwsim?
> 
> hwsim phys have no parents in sysfs since they're virtual.

Do you propose to patch hald to handle this situation then?

daniel