Re: [GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families

2006-09-03 Thread Johannes Berg
jamal wrote:

 Could you point me to it? I can look at it over the weekend.

I posted it here on netdev, look for nl80211.

 It may be we need to add another feature to genl to accomodate this.
 Example by setting a flag to indicate supportability. However, it does
 sound like this is something your code needs to own in a capability set
 structure somewhere. I cant tell without looking at the code.

Yes, I'm currently exporting it myself.

johannes

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Re: [GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families

2006-09-01 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 08:22 -0400, jamal wrote:

 Seems you may be talking about capabilities more than filtering?

yes, I had sort of thought filtering would be that, but now that you say
it I get the point :)

 Sorry, I havent had time to look at that code (is it in Daves tree?); 

No, it's not in any tree yet.

 if
 i understand you correctly - you have a superset of commands, and some
 users of those commands can only implement a subset?

precisely.

johannes
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Re: [GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families

2006-09-01 Thread jamal
On Fri, 2006-01-09 at 14:25 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
 On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 08:22 -0400, jamal wrote:
 

  Sorry, I havent had time to look at that code (is it in Daves tree?); 
 
 No, it's not in any tree yet.
 

Could you point me to it? I can look at it over the weekend.

  if
  i understand you correctly - you have a superset of commands, and some
  users of those commands can only implement a subset?
 
 precisely.


It may be we need to add another feature to genl to accomodate this.
Example by setting a flag to indicate supportability. However, it does
sound like this is something your code needs to own in a capability set
structure somewhere. I cant tell without looking at the code. 

cheers,
jamal

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