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From: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:57:06 -0700

> Hmmm....even that isn't so nice because the port-profile info for all VFs is
> going to get stuffed into the RTM_GETLINK skb, and I assume there are limits
> on the skb return size.

It's probably better to use .dump() for this, which allows to return
the result in multiple SKBs.