On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 15:27 +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > > > 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/co > mmit/?id=31e20bad8d58 > > I also see one in openvswitch (I will send a similar patch), but > there are probably some others. Yeah. I'm not really sure what the point of such a patch is though - the API is set now, and can't really be changed. Anyway, the ones you point out are only used for *output* by the kernel, so wouldn't be affected by any "missing attribute" reporting anyway. johannes
