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From: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_next return values
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 15:32:09 +0200
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On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 14:55 +0200, Lee Hambley wrote:

> int ret = ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_init(&rti, rth, rth->it_len);
> while(!ret) {
>   printf("Itteration: %d\n", count++);
>   ret = ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_next(&rti);

> 
> There's limited scope for having screwed something up in that code, I
> think, I'm confused by the `1' being returned from
> `ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_init' which according to the
> implenentation doesn't seem like an error condition in the
> implementation http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/wireless/radiotap.c#L95

I think you're confusing the userspace and Linux kernel implementation,
though they're very similar. In any case,
ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_next() cannot return 1, unless one of the
error values is defined to -1 (it returns -EINVAL and a few others)

johannes