On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 07:39 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > > On 02/23/2017 10:36 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > > > > + msg_head = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, 0, &hwsim_genl_family, 0, > > > + HWSIM_CMD_NOTIFY); > > > > I think you should use a more specific command name. > > My idea was that other attributes could be added over time without > having to add a new cmd-id, so that is why I left it general. If you > still want a different command, do you want it to be something like > 'HWSIM_CMD_CHANNEL_CHANGE' ?
We won't run out of command IDs any time soon, so I don't really see a problem with using a new one for all of those things if needed. But having a general NOTIFY just means that the application will have to parse the attributes and understand what means what - that seems like a case of the cure being worse than the disease? johannes
