Re: [PATCH 1/2] can: netlink: support setting hardware filters

On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:10:13 +0200 Martin Hundebøll wrote:

+		int len = nla_len(data[IFLA_CAN_HW_FILTER]);
+		int num_filter = len / sizeof(struct can_filter);
+		struct can_filter *filter = nla_data(data[IFLA_CAN_HW_FILTER]);

This will prevent you from ever extending struct can_filter in 
a backward-compatible fashion, right? I obviously know very little
about CAN but are you confident a more bespoke API to manipulate
filters individually and allow extensibility is not warranted?