From: Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:39:05 +0200
> When sending a netlink request (NLM_F_REQUEST), any unknown attributes are > ignored. This behavior is problematic in some situations. For example if the > user asks for a particular config, the request finishes successfully, yet > the configuraton applied does not work because some of the attributes are > not supported by the kernel (e.g. because it's older than the user space > tool). Although we are probably stuck with this, it was probably a bad idea to have this behavior as the default. Better would have been to always error on unrecognized attributes, and in the ACK give some indication of which attribute was problematic. But anyhow we are stuck with what we have. However, I will say I am disappointed that it is so hard to simply detect that lwtunnel support is present, which as I understand is what this patch set is trying to accomplish. And this is quite an intrusive patch series, and therefore not suitable for -stable backports. And that's exactly where you actually are going to need these changes right? Older kernels that lack lwtunnel support. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
