Re: [RFC PATCH] rtnetlink: Add filter for VF info dump requests

From: "Rose, Gregory V" <redacted>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:25:31 +0000

That will change the semantics to the 'ip link show' command quite a bit.

I think that's rubbish.

You can make "ip link show" do whatever you want, including setting all
feature bits in getlink requests, which will preserve existing behavior.