Re: [Wireshark-dev] Does proto_deregister_field really work?

2018-05-28 Thread Guy Harris
On May 28, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Richard Sharpe wrote: > This is in relation to the radiotap headers for HE and HE-MU (and more). "More" as in MCS, VHT, HE-MU-other-user, HE-MU, and HE, all of which have "known" flags. > The issue is that there are fields in those headers that are unknown > unless

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Does proto_deregister_field really work?

2018-05-28 Thread Paul Offord
atch your reports closely. Best regards...Paul Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2 Original message From: Richard Sharpe Date: 28/05/2018 17:29 (GMT+00:00) To: Developer support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Does proto_deregister_field really work? On Sun, May 2

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Does proto_deregister_field really work?

2018-05-28 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 3:19 AM, Peter Wu wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 04:51:13PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have an application where I want to change the specification of an >> HF entry or two, and found proto_deregister_field. >> >> It would seem that

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Does proto_deregister_field really work?

2018-05-27 Thread Peter Wu
Hi Richard, On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 04:51:13PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have an application where I want to change the specification of an > HF entry or two, and found proto_deregister_field. > > It would seem that I can deregister a field and then register a new > version

[Wireshark-dev] Does proto_deregister_field really work?

2018-05-09 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi folks, I have an application where I want to change the specification of an HF entry or two, and found proto_deregister_field. It would seem that I can deregister a field and then register a new version of it ... as long as I am careful. What is the cost of doing this? Is an alternative to r