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

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 10:37:58 -0800

On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 09:21:58 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > Don't understand the use case here.
> > > The kernel always sends the same payload size for the same attribute.    
> > 
> > Please see commit 374d345d9b5e13380c in the kernel.  
> 
> Ok, but maybe go further and handle u16 and u8

I guess you can if that's helpful in iproute2, as a "universal getter",
cost of a few branches. In the kernel I try hard to convince people to
never use u8 and u16 as they simply waste space on padding, and the bits
may turn out to be needed later.