netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: reduce NLA_POLICY_NESTED{,

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Message-Id: <20190125.113627.2203898610397855035.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:36:27 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: reduce NLA_POLICY_NESTED{,_ARRAY}
 arguments

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 20:34:57 +0100

> On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 11:04 -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> 
>> > Dave, it looks like we're the only users of this right now,
>> > so let me know if you'd prefer I take it through my tree.
>> > Also, this conflicts with the fix I just made to the place
>> > where I got it wrong, but obviously the resolution is to
>> > just take the version without the maxattr argument.
>> 
>> Please take it through your tree in that case.  It'll probably
>> be the more painless way to merge this.
> 
> Will do. The most painless would be if you'd merge net into net-next,
> then I could pull net-next into mac80211-next and resolve the conflict
> before I even apply the patch. In fact, I think either way I'll just
> wait until you do that, I suppose you will eventually anyway?

Yeah I will probably send Linus a pull request today which means the
net --> net-next merge should occur in the next 24 hours.