From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:22:11 -0400 Message-ID: <1157113331.5057.67.camel@jzny2> References: <20060831212129.GF3470@postel.suug.ch> <1157060812.5297.51.camel@jzny2> <1157093281.2878.19.camel@ux156> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Graf , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx03.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.106]:36276 "EHLO mx03.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751141AbWIAMWR (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 08:22:17 -0400 Received: from mail.cyberus.ca ([209.197.145.21]) by mx03.cybersurf.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GJ82L-0000U0-9L for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:22:17 -0400 To: Johannes Berg In-Reply-To: <1157093281.2878.19.camel@ux156> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-01-09 at 08:48 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > What I'd personally like to see for nl80211 if we go there is an actual > filter callback, then I could completely avoid the command I have in > there for getting a command list for a given interface, and just filter > out those commands that some interface doesn't support. Seems you may be talking about capabilities more than filtering? Sorry, I havent had time to look at that code (is it in Daves tree?); if i understand you correctly - you have a superset of commands, and some users of those commands can only implement a subset? cheers, jamal