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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bridge: mdb: add support for extended
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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...