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On 10-06-16 23:08, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 12:47 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> I see this was added sometime recently:  NL80211_ATTR_PAD
>>
>> If another enum member is added, should it replace the PAD enum?
> 
> No.
> 
>> At the least, I think we need some comments about how this is to be
>> dealt with.
>>
> 
> You simply ignore it :)

So do you know why the caller of nla_put_u64_64bit() would need to
specify the padattr. I mean, why is this not an generic attribute that
netlink deals with internally. It has probably been discussed on the
netdev list but I could not find the right thread.

Regards,
Arend
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