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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:56:00 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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To: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
CC: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
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	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: skb->priority magic values as part of UAPI headers?
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On 03/14/2014 02:26 AM, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>> While browsing through net/wireless/util.c::cfg80211_classify8021d() I
>> stumbled upon the "magic values" range 256 to 263, should not those be
>> made part of some sort of user-space API header file, just so if
>> things need to be changed, they suddenly do not break?
> 
> I stumbled over that some time ago as well [1].
> The question is if this is required at all anymore or if it could just
> be removed.
> Helmut

I use it to easily poke user-space generated packets into specific
transmit queues on the NIC.  Please do not remove it.

Thanks,
Ben

> 
> [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/82689
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