On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 15:54 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote: > What I'm trying to say is that even though the driver handles the > condition of nla_type == 0 when it generates the message, the > condition isn't handled correct when the message finally gets passed > up into user-space, because the above sequence in the netlink library > gets hit both for "iw" and "hostapd". > > So it's not enough to handle it correctly in the driver: it needs to > be handled in libnl as well. > > There are 3 potential solutions: > > (1) go with a 1-based enum for the band, instead of 0-based; > (2) remove the test for nla_type == 0 in nla_parse() in libnl; > (3) use a way to convey the band that doesn't involve overloading > nla_type; > > What's the correct fix? You managed to totally throw me off course ... The problem is completely unrelated to this, see the patch I just sent :-) johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
