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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 12:11:45 +0100
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip: require RTM_NEWLINK
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In-Reply-To: <20231203182929.9559-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>

Sun, Dec 03, 2023 at 07:29:14PM CET, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
>The kernel support for creating network devices was added back
>in 2007 and iproute2 has been carrying backward compatability
>support since then. After 16 years, it is enough time to
>drop the code.
>
>Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>

Thanks!