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Re: [PATCH v2] Add nl80211 commands to get and set o11s mesh networking parameters

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On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:40 -0700, colin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The two new commands are NL80211_CMD_GET_MESH_PARAMS and
> NL80211_CMD_SET_MESH_PARAMS. There is a new attribute enum,
> NL80211_ATTR_MESH_PARAMS, which enumerates the various mesh configuration
> parameters.
> 
> Moved struct mesh_config from mac80211/ieee80211_i.h to net/cfg80211.h.
> nl80211_get_mesh_params and nl80211_set_mesh_params unpack the netlink messages
> and ask the driver to get or set the configuration.  This is done via two new
> function stubs, get_mesh_params and set_mesh_params, in struct cfg80211_ops.

> +	/* Set the mask */
> +	mask = 0;
> +	for (i = 0; i < NL80211_MESHCONF_ATTR_MAX; ++i)
> +		if (tb[i+1])
> +			mask |= (1 << i);

Can you move that into the macro so it's set whenever you parse any of
the values? I think you probably missed that in my earlier mail? Or was
there a reason not to?

> +	/* Fill in the params struct */
> +	FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, dot11MeshRetryTimeout,
> +			NL80211_MESHCONF_RETRY_TIMEOUT, nla_get_u16);


> +		.cmd = NL80211_CMD_GET_MESH_PARAMS,
> +		.doit = nl80211_get_mesh_params,
> +		.policy = nl80211_policy,
> +		.flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM,

Does this really need admin permission for getting the values?

johannes

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