From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: razor@blackwall.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com,
stephen@networkplumber.org, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bridge: mdb: add support for extended attributes
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:37:40 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160218.153740.101157132273397459.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455623214-2951-1-git-send-email-razor@blackwall.org>
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:46:52 +0100
> Note that the reason we can't simply add an attribute after
> MDBA_MDB_ENTRY_INFO is that current users (e.g. iproute2) walk over
> the attribute list directly without checking for the attribute type.
Honestly that sounds like a bug in iproute2 to me...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-18 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-16 11:46 [PATCH net-next 0/2] bridge: mdb: add support for extended attributes Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-02-16 11:46 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] bridge: mdb: reduce the indentation level in br_mdb_fill_info Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-02-16 11:46 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] bridge: mdb: add support for more attributes and export timer Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-02-18 20:37 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-02-18 20:51 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] bridge: mdb: add support for extended attributes Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-02-19 20:26 ` David Miller
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