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Re: [PATCH] wext: include wireless event id when it has a size problem

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On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 14:43 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> The wext code checks is the event data is within size limits.
> When this check fails a message is logged with violating size.
> This patch adds the event id to put us on the right track for
> resolving that violation.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Maybe wext is not popular, but I found the change helpful debugging
> so others may benefit from it. Still some wireless apps default to
> it, eg. wpa_supplicant.

I don't even want to know what you're debugging, but I applied it
anyway.

FWIW, wext isn't just "not popular", it's "pretty much dead" :-)

johannes

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