From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Reset split_start when netlink skb is exhausted
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:04:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389881089.4345.7.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389880840-27863-1-git-send-email-pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> (sfid-20140116_150056_741817_DE840D7C)
On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 15:00 +0100, Pontus Fuchs wrote:
> When the netlink skb is exhausted split_start is left set. In the
> subsequent retry, with a larger buffer, the dump is continued from the
> failing point instead of from the beginning.
>
> This was causing my rt28xx based USB dongle to now show up when
> running "iw list" with an old iw version without split dump support.
Thanks, applied. I added Cc: stable and Fixes: tags as well as adding "!
state->split" to the conditions.
johannes
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2014-01-16 14:00 [PATCH] nl80211: Reset split_start when netlink skb is exhausted Pontus Fuchs
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