Re: Vendor-specific dissectors for 802.11

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte () gmail com>]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com
> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Michael Mann via Wireshark-dev
> <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> wrote:
> > See https://code.wireshark.org/review/23065
> >
> > It could probably use some review for "naming".  I'm not familiar enough
> > with the dissector to know if fields/dissector table name makes sense.
> >
> > In regards to not already having a dissector table, not all developers
> think
> > about it, especially if there is only a case or two.  Then a situation
> like
> > yours comes along, and it gets changed. It also looks like "public
> fields"
> > may need its own dissector table for vendor specific functionality too.
>
> I would love to give this some thought, and may do, but the damn
> IEEE802.11 2012 spec is 2600+ pages long!
>
> There is now ieee802.11-2016 spec with now 3400+ pages long.. ;-)

Thanks Michael for the patch (push a minor fix to fix typo)



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> Regards,
> Richard Sharpe
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