From: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NL80211_ATTR_PAD question
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 21:25:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <575F089C.3020201@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465592932.2308.6.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On 10-06-16 23:08, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 12:47 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> I see this was added sometime recently: NL80211_ATTR_PAD
>>
>> If another enum member is added, should it replace the PAD enum?
>
> No.
>
>> At the least, I think we need some comments about how this is to be
>> dealt with.
>>
>
> You simply ignore it :)
So do you know why the caller of nla_put_u64_64bit() would need to
specify the padattr. I mean, why is this not an generic attribute that
netlink deals with internally. It has probably been discussed on the
netdev list but I could not find the right thread.
Regards,
Arend
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-13 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-10 19:47 NL80211_ATTR_PAD question Ben Greear
2016-06-10 20:28 ` Arend van Spriel
2016-06-10 21:08 ` Johannes Berg
2016-06-10 22:40 ` Ben Greear
2016-06-13 19:25 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2016-06-21 9:36 ` Johannes Berg
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