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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 rdma: Ignore unknown netlink attributes
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 16:43:26 -0700
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To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
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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