Hi,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:00:54AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > In addition, I checked the code of dhclient and while it does listen
> > to the RTM_80211INFO messages it will only use them to do a RESTART (drop
> > things it thinks it knows about the interface and re-read all the
> > information) which is a good thing. It will not start sending
> > messages early while the link is still down.
> 
> dhclient is being used by fewer and fewer people.  Please focus on the
> other route socket listeners, there are many.

I did grep all of "src" before and added all the patches in
"ports", now. I'm grepping for the RTM_80211INFO constant as
the change only affects when this particular message type is sent.
Any user of the message would have to use this constant somehow, right?

Apart from wpa_supplicant the only users are:
- dhclient which is fine.
- route prints the message contents in monitor mode but does
  not use the message otherwise.

     regards   Christian


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