On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:11:12 +0200 Johannes Berg wrote: > Yeah, I was being a bit sneaky here ;) > > We could, for sure. Given that the users should probably be defensively > coded anyway (as I did in drop_monitor), I wasn't sure if we _should_. > > It seemed to me that for experimentation, especially if your driver is a > module, it might be easier to allow this? > > That said, I don't have any strong feelings about it, and I have some > bugs here anyway so I can just add that. > > We _could_ also keep a check for the core subsystem, but not sure that's > worth it? Checking the top bits should be good enough to catch uninitialized values, and discourage out-of-tree shenanigans, I'd hope.
