cfg80211_find_ie(9)

cfg80211_find_ie9

Find information element in data

Usage

const u8 * cfg80211_find_ie(u8 eid, const u8 * ies, int len);

Arguments

eid

element ID

ies

data consisting of IEs

len

length of data

Return

NULL if the element ID could not be found or if the element is invalid (claims to be longer than the given data), or a pointer to the first byte of the requested element, that is the byte containing the element ID.

Note

There are no checks on the element length other than having to fit into the given data.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 7
  2. 8

Author

Johannes Berg <[email protected]>

Author.

From linux-manual-3.16 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.