# Re: \[PATCH v5 1/7\] can: netlink: allow user to turn off unsupported features

- From: Marc Kleine-Budde \<mkl@pengutronix.de\>
- Date: 2021-08-19 07:45:27 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/08/1482585
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-can/2021/08/1478077/t.md

```text
On 15.08.2021 12:32:42, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
> The sanity checks on the control modes will reject any request related
> to an unsupported features, even turning it off.
> 
> Example on an interface which does not support CAN-FD:
> 
> $ ip link set can0 type can bitrate 500000 fd off
> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
> 
> This patch lets such command go through (but requests to turn on an
> unsupported feature are, of course, still denied).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <redacted>

I'm planing to send a pull request to net-next today. I want to do some
more tests with this series, but this patch is more or less unrelated,
so I can take it in this PR, should I?

regards,
Marc

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