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Re: [PATCH v3] cfg80211: Enhance the AKM advertizement to support per interface.

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On Sun, 2020-01-26 at 16:51 +0530, Veerendranath Jakkam wrote:
> 
> +
> +	nested = nla_nest_start(msg, NL80211_ATTR_IFTYPE_AKM_SUITES);
> +	if (!nested)
> +		return -ENOBUFS;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < rdev->wiphy.num_iftype_akm_suites; i++) {
> +		nested_akms = nla_nest_start(msg, i + 1);
> +		if (!nested_akms)
> +			return -ENOBUFS;
> +
> +		iftype_akms = &rdev->wiphy.iftype_akm_suites[i];
> +
> +		if (nl80211_put_iftypes(msg, NL80211_ATTR_SUPPORTED_IFTYPES,
> +					iftype_akms->iftypes_mask))
> +			return -ENOBUFS;
> +
> +		if (nla_put(msg, NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES,

Using the top-level attributes inside the nesting makes things
unnecessarily difficult to understand and take far more memory to parse,
IMHO it'd be better to define a new set of inner attributes
NL80211_IFTYPE_AKM_ATTR_IFTYPES, ..._SUITES or so.

johannes




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