netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: add vlan id to mdb notifications

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Date:	Fri, 28 Nov 2014 02:18:52 -0800
From:	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	vyasevich@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	wkok@...ulusnetworks.com, gospo@...ulusnetworks.com,
	jtoppins@...ulusnetworks.com, sashok@...ulusnetworks.com,
	Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: add vlan id to mdb notifications

On 11/26/14, 1:53 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 11/26/14 at 12:40pm, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>> I have always wondered, if binary netlink attributes have this restriction,
>> they should be discouraged. especially when the other extensible option is
>> to add them as a separate netlink attribute.
> This is pretty much exactly the reason why attributes have been
> introduced ;-)

thanks for confirming that thomas :). Will resubmit the patch with vlan 
information as a separate attribute.


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