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Re: [PATCH 02/13] wifi: nl80211: send underlying multi-hardware channel capabilities to user space

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On Thu, 2024-03-28 at 17:17 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-03-28 at 09:14 -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > On 3/28/2024 9:09 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2024-03-28 at 20:40 +0530, Karthikeyan Periyasamy wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Can you point to any attribute constructed in this way from kernelspace 
> > > > for the reference to explore more ?
> > > 
> > > I don't have anything directly, looking at the code finds e.g.
> > > devlink_dpipe_entry_ctx_append() but honestly that's really quite
> > > trivial, it just adds that new attribute while iterating whatever list
> > > you have.
> > 
> > Note that we are trying to maintain the same structure used by the current
> > wiphy global advertisement since we actually refactor and reuse the existing code.
> 
> Partially, yes. That's not true for the one I was discussing _here_,
> notably nl80211_put_multi_hw_support(), however.
> 
> It's partially true for patch 6, though even there
> nl80211_put_per_hw_iface_combinations() doesn't need to do it that way,
> since that's a whole new attribute (NL80211_IFACE_COMB_PER_HW_COMB) and
> can define the content anew

I should say "content and how it forms an array in the top-level
message" here.

johannes





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