linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] bridge: mrp: Rework the MRP netlink interface

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Message-Id: <20200527.113055.1994967996705658293.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 11:30:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com
Cc:     nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, mkubecek@...e.cz,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] bridge: mrp: Rework the MRP netlink
 interface

From: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 12:34:30 +0000

> This patch reworks the MRP netlink interface. Before, each attribute
> represented a binary structure which made it hard to be extended.
> Therefore update the MRP netlink interface such that each existing
> attribute to be a nested attribute which contains the fields of the
> binary structures.
> In this way the MRP netlink interface can be extended without breaking
> the backwards compatibility. It is also using strict checking for
> attributes under the MRP top attribute.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>

Applied, thanks.