netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM

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Message-Id: <20160418.235207.395468709808133833.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:52:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jhs@...atatu.com, tgraf@...g.ch, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to
 dump link stats

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:48:51 -0400 (EDT)

> I think the time has probably come to have a new netlink attribute
> format that doesn't have this multi-decade old problem.
 ...

Scratch this whole idea, I think the padding attribute works a lot
better and is backwards compatible with every properly written
netlink application.