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Re: [PATCH wireless-next v9 3/3] wifi: mac80211: Set RTS threshold on per-radio basis

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> > > > 
> > > The following snippet of code tests the value of radio_id in
> > > nl80211_set_wiphy() in net/wireless/nl80211.c:
> > > +		/* Radio idx is not expected for non-multi radio wiphy */
> > > +		if (rdev->wiphy.n_radio <= 0)
> > > +			return -EINVAL;
> > > 
> > > This snippet returns an error if the radio_id is negative, so radio_id
> > > passed to set_rts_threshold() will always be positive. So can we retain
> > > u8 data type for radio_id?
> > 
> > I quote from the commit message:
> > 
> > > A value of NL80211_WIPHY_RADIO_ID_INVALID(-1) indicates radio index is not
> > > mentioned and the configuration applies to all radio(s) of the wiphy.
> > 
> > So now something is at least _very_ confusing.
> > 
> I can rewrite the code to something like this:
>  - Change the data type of radio_id to int.
>  - NL80211_WIPHY_RADIO_ID_INVALID value assigned a -1.
>  - Set RTS threshold for all radios when radio_id is -1.
> 
> Is this okay?

I honestly thought the last two items were already the case?

johannes





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