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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 12:47 AM
To: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>; Jiri Pirko
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Subject: Re: [iproute2-next v3 2/3] mnlg: add function to get
CTRL_ATTR_MAXATTR value

Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 10:56:49PM CEST, jacob.e.keller@intel.com wrote:

quoted

Add a new function to extract the CTRL_ATTR_MAXATTR attribute of the
CTRL_CMD_GETFAMILY request. This will be used to allow reading the
maximum supported devlink attribute of the running kernel in an upcoming
change.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <redacted>

I had a new approach which just extracted maxattr and stored it hwnever we call CTRL_CMD_GETFAMILY, which I think is a preferable approach to this. That was part of the series I sent recently to support policy checking. I think I'd prefer that route now over this patch.

Thanks,
Jake