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Re: [RFC v2 3/7] ieee80211: add new VHT capability fields/parsing

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On 15-2-2017 11:34, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> On 15-2-2017 10:48, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 10:36 +0100, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not really sure what to do - we don't really want to print a
>>>> message on something that might have been received from the peer, I
>>>> think? Though I suppose we should return 0 for the invalid
>>>> combinations, indicating that they're not supported.
>>>
>>> Ah. This is all non-functional code yet, right? At least having a
>>> static non-inline function in ieee80211.h will give build issues I
>>> would think.
>>
>> No, I marked it __maybe_unused so it'll be fine. I didn't want to have
>> it inlined if you use it multiple times in a single source file, but I
>> didn't want to move it to somewhere else either ...
> 
> Ah. Now I understand the trickery ;-) Was there really no "somewhere
> else" to move it, because honestly it is confusing and a bit wasteful if
> used multiple times in cfg80211 and/or drivers.

Although exporting it also comes at a cost.

Gr. AvS

> Gr. AvS
> 
>>> Anyway, I would indeed return 0 and have caller deal with that.
>>
>> Yeah, I'll do that.
>>
>> johannes
>>



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