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Re: [PATCH 1/5] netlink: extended ACK reporting

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Le 10/04/2017 à 08:18, Johannes Berg a écrit :
> 
>> perhaps I misunderstand something, but nla_parse suggests attribute
>> type can not be 0:
> [...]
> 
> Yes, some - very few - families still insist on using attribute 0,
> perhaps parsing by hand or so. Like you say though, the entire
> infrastructure makes that hard and undesirable, so I don't really see
> why we need to invest the extra code/work into making it work *here*,
> especially since it's such a corner case as I described in my other
> email.

Here is an example:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=31e20bad8d58

I also see one in openvswitch (I will send a similar patch), but there are
probably some others.


Regards,
Nicolas



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