* Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-09-14 09:44 > This patch adds an NLA_CUSTOM_CHECK type for netlink attributes > in order to be able to centrally define new attribute structures > instead of having to check these special types in each function > that uses such an attribute. > > nl80211 will benefit from this because it needs an information > element attribute with a fixed type|length|value structure defined > in IEEE 802.11 which ought to be checked when passing an IE from > userspace.
Looks good, we have to watch the size of struct nla_policy though. This bumps the size from 4 bytes to 16 bytes on 64bit architectures which might become a problem since we always use ATTR_MAX sized arrays. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
