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Re: [PATCH Try#11 3/4] cfg80211: Radiotap parser

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On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 17:07 +0100, Andy Green wrote:

> Is it useful to report that there were items in the radiotap section
> that were not illegal but were not comprehensible either?  Any app that
> is written against the parser will be using the contempary list of
> constants from ieee80211_radiotap.h, and anything added in there should
> be added to radiotap.c.  Put another way you won't be in any better
> position to understand or handle radiotap args that cfg80211 doesn't
> understand than cfg80211 is itself.  Is there a case where you don't
> want to ignore these unknown later entries that could appear?

Good point, I guess you just want to ignore any new items hoping that
they'll be orthogonal to the ones already there and thus you just don't
handle them. In any case, if we need it we can still change it, so just
leave as-is.

johannes

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