Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 13:49 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:

> >> I am a dark-ages guy :-p I think I will rename the BOOTP one and
> >> indicate it should be used for BOOTP and DHCPv6.
> >
> > Might also be worth it to rename ARP to APIPA since ARP is ... well
> > often done :-)
> 
> I chose ARP because APIPA is essentially not a protocol. As far as I 
> understand it makes use of ARP to make sure the address in unique. I see 
> your point and will change it. Then again it all may go away :-)

I see your point too, but I'd argue that APIPA is really more of a
higher-level protocol that uses ARP for its implementation?

> > Well you have to store the nlportid (rather than crit_proto_started) and
> > then check it.
> 
> Yeah, I surmised that already. If I would drop crit_proto_started and 
> use the portid as a flag as well, I need an invalid portid. Is there a 
> definition for that?

I'm pretty sure 0 is invalid for userspace because it means "kernel".

johannes