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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: change function signature of cfg80211_get_p2p_attr()

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On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 11:27 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 19:13 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > The function cfg80211_get_p2p_attr() can fail and returns
> > a negative error code. However, the return type is unsigned
> > int. The largest positive number is determined by desired_len
> > variable in the function, which is u16. So changing the return
> > type to int to allow easy error checking. Also change the type
> > for the attribute to enum for improved type checking.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Hi Johannes,
> > 
> > I decided to make use of cfg80211_get_p2p_attr() in brcmfmac
> > and would like this minor change to it.
> > 
> > The only other "driver" using it is mac80211 and it seems it
> > will not mind this change ;-)
> 
> Yeah, well, it actually uses an int as this should, thanks for fixing!
> 
> Applied, but I've fixed your indentation:
> 
> > +int cfg80211_get_p2p_attr(const u8 *ies, unsigned int len,
> > +				   enum ieee80211_p2p_attr_id attr_id,
> > +				   u8 *buf, unsigned int bufsize)
> >  {
> > +	u8 attr = (u8)attr_id;
> 
> Also this isn't actually needed, you can compare a u8 to attr later :)

And if we change it back, this patch also doesn't break
kernel-doc ... :P

johannes

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