From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] netlink: strict attribute checking option Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 01:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20151016.010644.2090038835491896678.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20151015.235007.973370825335101214.davem@davemloft.net> <20151016093945.54a6a7aa@griffin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tgraf@suug.ch To: jbenc@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:51988 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753894AbbJPHuf (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2015 03:50:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20151016093945.54a6a7aa@griffin> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jiri Benc Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:39:45 +0200 > I'm targeting net-next only and don't intend to bring this to older > kernels. The patchset is designed in the way that it's possible to > detect that the kernel does not support strict attribute checking. When > this is detected, the tools will just assume that lwtunnel support is > not there. No, it's definitely not OK, because lwtunnel support exists in Linus's tree. And tools should be able to work on all kernels where lwtunnel support is available.