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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:20:35 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:16:30 -0400

> On (09/10/15 10:13), David Miller wrote:
>> I don't think using such a generic netlink flag works best, the
>> IFLA_EXT_MASK is definitely more suitable.
> 
> Ok, though this more of a IFLA_TRUNCATE_MASK than a IFLA_EXT_MASK.

IFLA_EXT_MASK is precisely for filtering out objects and attributes
from a netlink dump or reply, there is no reason to make a new
attribute with a different name for this.