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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Reset split_start when netlink skb is exhausted
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:04:49 +0100
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On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 15:00 +0100, Pontus Fuchs wrote:
> When the netlink skb is exhausted split_start is left set. In the
> subsequent retry, with a larger buffer, the dump is continued from the
> failing point instead of from the beginning.
> 
> This was causing my rt28xx based USB dongle to now show up when
> running "iw list" with an old iw version without split dump support.

Thanks, applied. I added Cc: stable and Fixes: tags as well as adding "!
state->split" to the conditions.

johannes