netdev - Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: export gso_max

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Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:47:39 -0800
From:   Solio Sarabia <solio.sarabia@...el.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, shiny.sebastian@...el.com, dsahern@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: export gso_max_size attribute

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 10:32:49AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-11-24 at 10:14 -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> > 
> > This should be added to rtnetlink rather than sysfs.
> 
> This is already exposed by rtnetlink [1]
> 
> Please lets not add yet another net-sysfs knob.
> 
> [1] c70ce028e834f8e51306217dbdbd441d851c64d3 net/rtnetlink: add IFLA_GSO_MAX_SEGS and IFLA_GSO_MAX_SIZE attributes

It's useful `ip -d a` reports these values. Thanks. 

I had an old version (iproute2-ss151103). Based on changelog, it is
available since iproute2-ss161009.