On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 16:54 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Johannes Berg > <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why would we care about the mask here? Wouldn't a u32 attribute with the > > set flags only make more sense? > > I though about using the mask to tell user space which flags are actually > used/supported by the driver. There might be nl80211 drivers that can't provide > all flags and hence want to mask out the flags. Otherwise user space cannot > decide if a flag is not set or not supported by the driver. Does that sound > reasonable? Yeah I was thinking that too, maybe that makes some sense. Not sure we'll really run into that? Anyway we can keep it, I don't mind. 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
