Re: NetworkManager and mac80211_hwsim

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 18:25 +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> 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?

The patch (for now) would have to go in hal, since obviously if HAL
can't see it, NM won't.  Until we port over to DeviceKit of course.

dan