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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug•ch>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
	vyasevich@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	wkok@cumulusnetworks•com, gospo@cumulusnetworks•com,
	jtoppins@cumulusnetworks•com, sashok@cumulusnetworks•com,
	Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@cumulusnetworks•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: add vlan id to mdb notifications
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 02:18:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54784C0C.30409@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141126215327.GC13786@casper.infradead.org>

On 11/26/14, 1:53 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 11/26/14 at 12:40pm, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>> I have always wondered, if binary netlink attributes have this restriction,
>> they should be discouraged. especially when the other extensible option is
>> to add them as a separate netlink attribute.
> This is pretty much exactly the reason why attributes have been
> introduced ;-)

thanks for confirming that thomas :). Will resubmit the patch with vlan 
information as a separate attribute.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-28 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-26 13:53 [PATCH net-next] bridge: add vlan id to mdb notifications roopa
2014-11-26 18:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-11-26 19:40   ` Jonathan Toppins
2014-11-26 20:45     ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-11-26 20:40   ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-11-26 21:53     ` Thomas Graf
2014-11-28 10:18       ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]

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