netdev - Re: [PATCH ethtool-next v2 5/6] netlink: use policy dumping to check if stats flag is supported

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Message-ID: <20201006193913.GA2932230@shredder>
Date:   Tue, 6 Oct 2020 22:39:13 +0300
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     mkubecek@...e.cz, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool-next v2 5/6] netlink: use policy dumping to check
 if stats flag is supported

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 08:04:24AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Older kernels don't support statistics, to avoid retries
> make use of netlink policy dumps to figure out which
> flags kernel actually supports.

Thanks for working on this, Jakub.

Michal, should I try something similar for the legacy flag we have been
discussing earlier this week [1]?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201005074600.xkbomksbbuliuyft@lion.mk-sys.cz/#t