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On 12/23/14 17:07, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 17:05 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
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>> It compiles, but I guess nla_put() will fail for u8[0+8-1/8] field.
>
> I think it should work - the array is 0 bytes long, so sizeof() would
> return 0, and that turns out to be equivalent to nla_put_flag().

Another day, another lesson ;-) Wondered how netlink flags were 
transported in the message, but never bothered to look. Thanks.

Arend

> johannes
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