Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6442] Add comments to help prevent GSMTAP incompatibilitie
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:51:42 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6442

--- Comment #4 from Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2011-10-08 07:51:42 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Build Information:
> Paste the COMPLETE build information from "Help->About Wireshark", "wireshark
> -v", or "tshark -v".
> --
> In the past, there have been several additions to the GSMTAP protocol format
> definition inside wireshark which have not been approved by the GSMTAP
> maintainer.
> 
> This has led to format incompatibilities that are hard to resolve.
> 
> See Bug #6103 as an example.
> 
> In order to ensure one consistent GSMTAP definition, some comments are added to
> the code in order to make sure modifications are first merged in the GSMTAP
> mainline header file, and then propagated to wireshark.

Appologies for that but without the proposed warnings it's difficult to know
that. If you see the need to "throw out" unauthorised extension that should be
possible the people that have made those additions will have to adopt their cod
in my opinion.
Regards
Anders

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