The main driving force for this was my new Decode As functionality (https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9450) that wants a dissector/subdissector table relationship for all dissectors wanting to use Decode As functionality. The ethertype() function provides the value to the "ethertype" subdissector table, so I think it should be matched to a dissector. Only odd side effect is the display filter of "ethertype" returns no packets because there is no "item" associated with the dissector.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=53443
keys to have _uint in their names, to match the routines that handle
dissector tables with string keys. (Using _port can confuse people into
thinking they're intended solely for use with TCP/UDP/etc. ports when,
in fact, they work better for things such as Ethernet types, where the
binding of particular values to particular protocols are a lot
stronger.)
svn path=/trunk/; revision=35224
(1) Trailing/leading spaces are removed from 'name's/'blurb's
(2) Duplicate 'blurb's are replaced with NULL
(3) Empty ("") 'blurb's are replaced with NULL
(4) BASE_NONE, NULL, 0x0 are used for 'display', 'strings' and 'bitmask' fields
for FT_NONE, FT_BYTES, FT_IPv4, FT_IPv6, FT_ABSOLUTE_TIME, FT_RELATIVE_TIME,
FT_PROTOCOL, FT_STRING and FT_STRINGZ field types
(5) Only allow non-zero value for 'display' if 'bitmask' is non-zero
svn path=/trunk/; revision=28770