netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] genl: print caps for all families

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:46:26 -0500
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        stephen@...workplumber.org, dsahern@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] genl: print caps for all families

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 12:10 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:22:56 -0500 Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> > After a couple of sips of some unknown drink: I think we can get rid
> > of ctrl_v altogether as a param to the printers and we should be good
> > (it would work for events as well).
>
> Do you mean to always interpret the flags? FWIW I think that should
> be fine, old kernels just don't set those flags so I'm not sure why
> we're gating interpreting them with the version.

I think it was leftover cruft from when the capabilities were being
sent as attributes. Old kernels
should work fine AFAIK.

cheers,
jamal