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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: tgraf@suug.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genetlink custom attribute type
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:09:59 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060926.130959.90119692.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159265074.2782.13.camel@ux156>

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:04:34 +0200

> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:44 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 
> > Thinking it over I'm still not completely happy with this. A
> > small subset of all the validation tasks is simply too complex
> > to be put into the policy. The validation of your type value
> > array is such a case, address fields with variable length based
> > on their family is another. I think it's just not worth to
> > blow up struct nla_policy by 12 bytes per entry just to save
> > some code.
> 
> Alright, I can instead just add the validation function call wherever
> that attribute is going to be used. Just thought it might be nice to
> have this generically, I'm not really too attached to it :)
> 
> I'll change it in the next nl80211 iteration.

Thanks Johannes.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-26 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-26  7:25 [PATCH] genetlink custom attribute type Johannes Berg
2006-09-26  9:44 ` Thomas Graf
2006-09-26 10:04   ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-26 20:09     ` David Miller [this message]
2006-09-27 12:18   ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-02 13:49     ` Thomas Graf
2006-10-02 13:56       ` Johannes Berg

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