Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:57128 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750873AbaJIJSo (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2014 05:18:44 -0400 Message-ID: <1412846322.1828.29.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20141009_111847_742117_BC8BAA0C) Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] mac80211: implement cfg80211_ops to query mesh proxy path table From: Johannes Berg To: Henning Rogge Cc: "linux-wireless @ vger . kernel . org" , Henning Rogge , Yeoh Chun-Yeow Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:18:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20141009_101047_525203_86B0F418) References: <1410505130-7271-1-git-send-email-henning.rogge@fkie.fraunhofer.de> <1410505130-7271-3-git-send-email-henning.rogge@fkie.fraunhofer.de> <1412840290.1828.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20141009_101047_525203_86B0F418) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 10:10 +0200, Henning Rogge wrote: > I think it should be reasonable safe. The variable is only increased > (never decreased) and is used as a "information version number" for > the dumps via netlink to the userspace. I think the current userspace > tools ignore the variable completely. Fair enough. I'll apply it. If an update is lost, it's likely that userspace saw a previous value anyway. johannes