On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 21:25 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: > > 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. > Netlink attribute numbers are always specific to the (generic) netlink family used. There was a discussion about using the attribute number 0 since that's reserved, but unfortunately it's only reserved in *most* families, some actually use it (despite that being broken with libnl.) johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
