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net: better handle netdescs

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
c
Domain
networking, operating-systems

Research direction

Read the related TODO at kernel-src/io/net/wlan.c around line 26 to see what netdesc handling needs. The issue gives no expected behavior or completion criteria, so clarify the requested change with the maintainer before starting; the body asks contributors to email first.

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Description

enhancement

Related TODO

Please email me first if you are going to work on this.

Dominant language
C
Stars
629
Forks
36
Avg merge
1d 23m
Merged PRs (30d)
8

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