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2014-03-14 8:56 GMT-07:00 Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 03/14/2014 02:26 AM, Helmut Schaa wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> While browsing through net/wireless/util.c::cfg80211_classify8021d() I
>>> stumbled upon the "magic values" range 256 to 263, should not those be
>>> made part of some sort of user-space API header file, just so if
>>> things need to be changed, they suddenly do not break?
>>
>> I stumbled over that some time ago as well [1].
>> The question is if this is required at all anymore or if it could just
>> be removed.
>> Helmut
>
> I use it to easily poke user-space generated packets into specific
> transmit queues on the NIC.  Please do not remove it.

The initial question was whether that should be clearly stated as part
of ABI contract between the kernel and user-space, do you think this
belongs in some header in include/uapi?

Thanks!
-- 
Florian
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