From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 rdma: Ignore unknown netlink attributes
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 16:43:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180404164326.626c1c25@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180403072842.32153-1-leon@kernel.org>
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 10:28:42 +0300
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
>
> The check if netlink attributes supplied more than maximum supported
> is to strict and may lead to backward compatibility issues with old
> application with a newer kernel that supports new attribute.
>
> CC: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
> Fixes: 74bd75c2b68d ("rdma: Add basic infrastructure for RDMA tool")
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Applied
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-04 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-03 7:28 [PATCH iproute2 rdma: Ignore unknown netlink attributes Leon Romanovsky
2018-04-03 13:32 ` Steve Wise
2018-04-04 5:42 ` Leon Romanovsky
2018-04-04 23:43 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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