Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats

From: Jiri Benc <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:48:28 +0200

On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:32:20 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 2) Use the new attribute flag with some required attribute for
>    existing commands, so that older kernel will not find the required
>    attribute and will reject the operation entirely.
>    May or may not fall back to trying the operation again without the
>    flag.

This is basically what I submitted half a year ago. See:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/382850

 Jiri