On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 17:46 -0400, jamal wrote: > I think it would be valuable to specify a set of flags for filtering > what gets sent to user space instead of unconditionally. > > Example, > filter level 0: > - what we have before your patch > filter level 1: > - protocol version > - header size > - maximum number of attributes > filter level 2: > - the rest of the stuff you have > > What netlink does today to filter at user space is something that can be > avoided with the above (an improvement in my opinion if you have a lot > of genl items in the kernel).
What I'd personally like to see for nl80211 if we go there is an actual filter callback, then I could completely avoid the command I have in there for getting a command list for a given interface, and just filter out those commands that some interface doesn't support. johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
