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| author | Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> | 2008-06-13 18:44:46 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2008-06-14 18:18:12 +0200 |
| commit | ba77f1abde3999e45d92c0ba4e0356f7498e959f (patch) | |
| tree | 6648e13b2597212f58c4e9f2df7e76c8e8d9bea5 /Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim | |
| parent | mac80211_hwsim: 802.11 radio simulator for mac80211 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ba77f1abde3999e45d92c0ba4e0356f7498e959f.tar.xz linux-ba77f1abde3999e45d92c0ba4e0356f7498e959f.zip | |
mac80211_hwsim: Clean up documentation
Clean up the introduction and fix a typo.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README index 2f6e90fcb5a7..2ff8ccb8dc37 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README +++ b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README @@ -9,13 +9,12 @@ published by the Free Software Foundation. Introduction mac80211_hwsim is a Linux kernel module that can be used to simulate -arbitrary number of IEEE 802.11 radios for mac80211 on a single -device. It can be used to test most of the mac80211 functionality and -user space tools (e.g., hostapd and wpa_supplicant) in a way that -matches very closely with the normal case of using real WLAN -hardware. From the mac80211 view point, mac80211_hwsim is yet another -hardware driver, i.e., no changes to mac80211 are needed to use this -testing tool. +arbitrary number of IEEE 802.11 radios for mac80211. It can be used to +test most of the mac80211 functionality and user space tools (e.g., +hostapd and wpa_supplicant) in a way that matches very closely with +the normal case of using real WLAN hardware. From the mac80211 view +point, mac80211_hwsim is yet another hardware driver, i.e., no changes +to mac80211 are needed to use this testing tool. The main goal for mac80211_hwsim is to make it easier for developers to test their code and work with new features to mac80211, hostapd, @@ -26,7 +25,7 @@ since all radio operation is simulated, any channel can be used in tests regardless of regulatory rules. mac80211_hwsim kernel module has a parameter 'radios' that can be used -to select how many radios are simulates (default 2). This allows +to select how many radios are simulated (default 2). This allows configuration of both very simply setups (e.g., just a single access point and a station) or large scale tests (multiple access points with hundreds of stations). |