netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] netlink: extended ACK reporting

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Date:   Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:27:31 +0200
From:   Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        pablo@...filter.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] netlink: extended ACK reporting

Le 10/04/2017 à 08:18, Johannes Berg a écrit :
> 
>> perhaps I misunderstand something, but nla_parse suggests attribute
>> type can not be 0:
> [...]
> 
> Yes, some - very few - families still insist on using attribute 0,
> perhaps parsing by hand or so. Like you say though, the entire
> infrastructure makes that hard and undesirable, so I don't really see
> why we need to invest the extra code/work into making it work *here*,
> especially since it's such a corner case as I described in my other
> email.

Here is an example:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=31e20bad8d58

I also see one in openvswitch (I will send a similar patch), but there are
probably some others.


Regards,
Nicolas