David S. Miller wrote: > This probably has nothing to do with why the patch doesn't > work for you, but the transformation of "incoming" to a "u8" > from an "int" is not fully correct, because hci_sock.c > does this: > > put_cmsg(msg, SOL_HCI, HCI_CMSG_DIR, sizeof(int), > &bt_cb(skb)->incoming); >
These things always scare me, why do folk litter code with sly knowledge of the size of struct members that may and do change? Why don't people do: put_cmsg(msg, SOL_HCI, HCI_CMSG_DIR, sizeof(bt_cb(skb)->incoming), &bt_cb(skb)->incoming); Or even better, use a macro to capture the semantics #define put_struct_msg(msg, S, H, ITEM) \ put_cmsg((msg),(S),(H),sizeof(ITEM),&(ITEM)) then do: put_struct_cmsg(msg, SOL_HCI, HCI_CMSG_DIR, bt_cb(skb)->incoming); It is true that macros can be over-used to create a meta-language and uber-api, but this case saves no end of trouble, surely it is what macros are for? Sam - 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