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

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Message-ID: <20230224103013.4a770b99@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:30:13 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
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, 24 Feb 2023 12:46:26 -0500 Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks, SG! 
I'll send v2 which removes the version checks completely later.