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Message-Id: <20160419.120033.1902139695182044134.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:00:33 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com Cc: roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, tgraf@...g.ch, eric.dumazet@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 09:45:32 +0200 > But we finally discover that some netlink API use the attribute '0'. I explicitly did not use attribute zero, and instead made a new IFLA_* attribute exactly to avoid compatability problems. Every netlink attribute space that needs to deal with this padding issue will need to add such a new attribute. It is the only safe way to deal with this problem.
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