Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 1/4] libnetlink: Add rta_getattr_uint()

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 14:58:59 -0800

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 23:29:06 +0100
Petr Machata <[email-masked]> wrote:

> +static inline __u64 rta_getattr_uint(const struct rtattr *rta)
> +{
> +	if (RTA_PAYLOAD(rta) == sizeof(__u32))
> +		return rta_getattr_u32(rta);
> +	return rta_getattr_u64(rta);

Don't understand the use case here.
The kernel always sends the same payload size for the same attribute.