linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 02/15] netlink: rename nl80211_validate_nested() to nla_validate

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Message-ID: <b85553d9869611f6ff04bb3bc1ee575cc788f5b2.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:15:04 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 02/15] netlink: rename
 nl80211_validate_nested() to nla_validate_nested()

On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 13:49 +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> Function nl80211_validate_nested() is not specific to nl80211, it's
> a counterpart to nla_validate_nested_deprecated() with strict validation.
> For consistency with other validation and parse functions, rename it to
> nla_validate_nested().

Umm, right, not sure how that happened. Sorry about that.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net?

johannes